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Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear


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Episode: Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear
Pub date: 2025-11-06

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Paris Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to entrench those problems, and what can really be done to improve mobility in our communities.

Doug Gordon is a TV producer and writer. Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author. They are the co-hosts of The War on Cars and co-authors of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Fighting Traffic by Peter D. Norton

  • Livable Streets by Donald Appleyard

  • Your Six-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

  • Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam



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