Cars are killing us, and it is time to limit the damage to drivers and to people around them, just like we did with smoking.
For the last few years, my particular position on cars has grown more extreme, from making SUVs and pickups safer to banning pickups and SUVs to banning diesels and then all internal combustion engines to finally, in exasperation, suggesting that we just flat out ban cars. Now, writing in the Guardian in the light of recent news about the dangers of pollution, Abi Wilkinson puts it more delicately: We should come to see car journeys as a last resort.
