A paper summarising ‘car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices’.

Some key remarks from the report:

• 1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.
• Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.

While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility’s violence and pollution will be impracticable without the replacement of policies that encourage car harm with policies that reduce it.

Although switching to electric vehicles may be less politically controversial than reducing car use, electrification fails to address a majority of the harms described in this paper, including crashes, intentional violence, sedentary travel, car dependence and isolation, unequal distribution of harm, inaccessibility, land use, or consumption of space, time, and resources.

It also has a handy list of interventions that can reduce car harm drawn from this meta-analysis of ‘effective interventions to reduce car use in European cities’.