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Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.
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Sisters Catherine Lutz (an anthropologist at Brown U.) and Anne Lutz Fernandez (a former marketer and investment banker) examine the impact of the automobile on broad aspects of American society. Their investigation is based on conversations with a varied group of drivers and a similarly varied group of individuals involved in the car industry and its impacts--e.g., car salesmen, mechanics, automobile brand marketers, car museum directors, toll booth operators, emergency room doctors, police, and epidemiologists--as well as advertising analysis, auto industry information, safety data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and government economics surveys. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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