In this viewpoint, author and campaigner Andrew Simms argues that - just as attitudes to smoking have changed - we need to rethink our relationship with the car, because of its impact on the environment and climate change. The coronavirus pandemic offered us a glimpse of a world with fewer cars on the road - does this offer us an opportunity to reassess the car?
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