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It’s not just you: Drivers have gotten worse since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The latest data from New York City shows that 27 percent of all traffic fatalities from 2021-2024 were caused by unlicensed drivers, up from 16 percent in 2019.
Plus: An op-ed from Andy Boenau on the masterful storytelling and propaganda that convinced 20th-century Americans to abandon human-scale design for car-oriented sprawl — and how to make some of our own.
The common denominator in every car crashes is a car. So why don’t we talk about it?
Jalopnik points out that there are certain vehicles that average people have no business driving.
…and what we can do to protect our kids *and* the e-bike revolution.
