How the car industry persuades people to buy the big cars they don’t need

Automakers can choose how they meet the standard. As long as their fleet as a whole is in compliance, they can keep making pretty much whatever cars they want.

How one quick trick in 2012 changed the way America drives—and undermined its climate rules

Western car culture, while promising the opposite, deprives us of our most precious commodity: time.

All this shouting about clocks is actually another pitched battle over the primacy of automobiles in our politics.

More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?

How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters

The administration says thousands more people will die in traffic accidents if vehicles are forced to become more fuel-efficient.