The book arrives at a tur­bu­lent time for car design­ers. A cen­tu­ry of auto­mo­tive priv­i­lege is being unwound in cities around the globe as new think­ing gives rise to bike lanes, bus cor­ri­dors, and pedes­tri­an­ized landscapes.

The tem­pest over kei trucks reflects an approach to reg­u­la­tions that has his­tor­i­cal­ly pri­or­i­tized safe­ty for peo­ple inside motor vehi­cles at the expense of safe­ty for every­one else.

The argu­ment against fed­er­al spend­ing on EV charg­ing infra­struc­ture is pre­cise­ly the oppo­site of the one voiced by the likes of the Wall Street Jour­nal.