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Friday Video: Are We All Living in a ‘Carspiracy’?

How does "car-brain" shape the way we think about the world — even in relatively bike-friendly countries like the U.K.?
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Pretty much all we talk about here at Streetsblog is how car culture shapes the way Americans live, move, and even think. The insidious forces of “moto-normativity,” though, reach pretty much every corner of the world — including the relatively bike-friendly UK.

Check out the latest video from the Global Cycling Network, which dove into the psychology behind “car brain” on both sides of the pond — with a lot of help from longtime friend of Streetsblog Dr. Ian Walker — and how our political and built environment choices reinforce that troubling windshield bias every day.

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