As if it wasn’t enough that we scare people away from driving with our onerous licensing and registration requirements, we also do it by marginalizing motoring as something done only by the kind of people who drive. Make a mental count of how often you’ve seen news reports or commentary refer to “car enthusiast”, and the number of times you might have used this term yourself.

Banish “car enthusiast” from your vocabulary. Self-marginalizing language like this is why we can’t have more cars on the road. (more…)