Have Americans Been Carjacked?
Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez grew up together, as Catherine put it, “in the backseat, getting driven around, going on at least an annual family adventure in the car.” Their relationships with cars grew more complex in adulthood: both have lived in cities with easy-to-use public transportation, and in suburbs where cars were a costly necessity, and traffic a constant frustration. When two people they were close to died in car accidents, the two began work on Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives. …
