Cars
Basics
Walkable Cities Can Make Life Better for Drivers, Too
...at least when communities embrace a handful of design strategies that make transportation better for everyone.
October 5, 2026
Talking Headways Podcast: Carspreading
Decisions about our public space are not being made at City Hall, but in car showrooms around the world.
September 10, 2026
Driverless Cars Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives. But We Must Treat Them Like Aviation — Not Like Cars
Commercial passenger aviation has nearly zero passenger deaths per year compared to about 40,000 roadway deaths. That's not a function of driving being inherently riskier — it is a function of what our leaders decide is "safe enough."
June 18, 2026
The Real Reason America Can’t Have The Tiny Japanese-Style Cars Trump Says He Wants
Trump is right that kei cars are super-kawaii — but he's wrong that clearing the regulatory decks is enough to bring them to U.S. shores.
December 16, 2025
Opinion: One Less Lane Ought To Fix It
Federal inaction means states must lead on reducing emissions — but their reluctance to reallocate road space for cars may doom climate goals.
December 2, 2025
Friday Video: The Horrors of the Modern High-Tech Car
As more technology wheedles its way into our cars, they get scarier and scarier.
October 31, 2025
Want Safer Vehicles? Amid Federal Inaction, Look to the States
Our federal regulatory framework still lacks essential technology that makes cars, SUVs, and trucks safer. So states are leading.
September 24, 2025
Seattle’s Human Population Is Up, But Its Car Population Isn’t
Urbanists have long been making that case that growth in Seattle is the most climate-friendly and easiest to support with transit and infrastructure. And it's happening.
September 16, 2025
Car Harms Tuesday: Cars Are Just Ugly
New York has always had businesses and people using its streets for work and play. But it hasn’t always had this many cars, and never before have they been this big.
May 27, 2025
Commentary: It’s Nice Not to Worry About the Rising Costs of Cars
Don't you wish you didn't have to think so much about tariffs and what it's going to do to the cost of car ownership?
The post Commentary: It’s Nice Not to Worry About the Rising Costs of Cars appeared first on Streetsblog San Francisco.
March 28, 2025
