Suburbans in the City
The Chevrolet Suburban is one of General Motors' most enduring triumphs — the longest-running nameplate in automotive history, to use the industry jargon, and the original SUV. In production since 193...
5 Feb 202030min
Department of Bikeland Security
Making change happen in a big, complex, bureaucratic city is really hard. One guy who knows all about that is Shabazz Stuart, the Chief Executive Officer of Oonee, a Brooklyn-based startup company tha...
17 Jan 202033min
WCAR Drive Time Radio
Is the Hyperloop for real or are easily duped elected officials the only people it will take for a ride? Do e-bikes have the power to transform the suburbs? Why should politicians and the press say "c...
23 Dec 201940min
Kara Swisher Says Car Ownership is Finished
Last March, renowned tech journalist and prognosticator Kara Swisher wrote a New York Times opinion piece with the headline, "Owning a car will soon be as quaint as owning a horse." In it, she declare...
10 Dec 201934min
You Get a Car!
It's one of the most famous moments in daytime TV history, but what really happened when Oprah Winfrey gave a brand new Pontiac G6 to every member of her studio audience? Leave it to The War on Cars t...
20 Nov 201923min
The Automotive Police State
For a century, the automobile has been sold to Americans as the ultimate freedom machine. In her groundbreaking new book, "Policing the Open Road," historian and legal scholar Sarah Seo explodes that ...
31 Okt 201935min
What Uber Hath Wrought
For a few years after Uber launched in 2009, it seemed like the on-demand ride-hailing service might be an advance in the war on cars — a way for more people to share fewer vehicles and to reduce over...
16 Okt 201930min
The Problem With Public Meetings, Part 2
In Part 1 of "The Problem With Public Meetings" we took you inside a difficult community meeting in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and urged compassion and understanding for neighbors who aren't quite yet on b...
4 Okt 201932min
