Status Updates From Carjacked: The Culture of t...

“Or working one less hour”. ? What adult has this option? This just seems so crazy. One less hour? Had the author never had a job?

“Getting a drivers license essential right of passage in this country, when it stands above all for freedom from the family and the family schedule.”

Could anything more encapsulate what’s wrong with our society than the fact that we seek freedom from the people who live the most?

The author mentions the rule of thumb most drivers have about how many miles per hour is acceptable to drive over the speed limit. Nobody ever questions the fact that universally drivers understand speed limit to mean speed minimum. Drivers routinely get pulled over for driving under the maximum which should be normal.

Together with Firestone, Standard Oil, and Phillips Petroleum, GM eliminated their competition, buying and then ripping up entire street car systems in 45 cities between 1936 and 1950.

After reading the preface my hopes for this book are much lower.

I finally sat down & finished the book today! Will have to revisit specific chapters to review some stuff, but overall, it's really insightful. It made me more mindful of how I behave on the world when I get my license, and when I buy my own car for the first time.

We don't see that this transportation strategy is like dealing with obesity by buying a bigger belt.

Starting this while on our Memphis trip

interesting concept but so poorly written I'm not sure I can go on. might add this to "read" category.