“The thing that worries me most about electric cars is that we will double-down and drive an awful lot more than we currently do”
Cars have promised freedom and mobility. However, according to the journalist Daniel Knowles, they have actually made our lives worse. In Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do, Knowles looks at the rise of the car and assesses the impact it has had on everything from urban planning to the economy and human happiness - or lack thereof. He takes readers around the world from Nairobi, where, despite the fact that few people own a car, the city is still cloaked in smog, to Houston, where the Katy Freeway has 36 lanes and there are 30 parking spaces for every resident. In this podcast, he talks to Sinead about why he wrote the book, and what needs to happen to reduce our reliance on cars.
