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Why We Drive
Crawford's 2020 philosophical defense of driving as practice — arguing that skilled operation of vehicles develops agency, embodied judgment, and self-reliance increasingly threatened by automation.
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road is Crawford's 2020 book extending his philosophical project to the specific domain of automobile operation and the increasing automation that threatens it. The book argues that driving, when practiced seriously, develops the same embodied cognitive capacities that craft work develops — spatial reasoning, judgment under uncertainty, the capacity to read ambiguous situations in real time, the specific kind of self-reliance that comes from being responsible for one's own passage through the physical world. The book serves as Crawford's most direct engagement with the question of what is lost when automated systems replace human judgment in domains that have historically been sites of practical wisdom and self-governance.
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The book's philosophical core is the argument that driving is a practice in MacIntyre's sense — a coherent, complex form of cooperative human activity whose internal goods include the specific pleasures of skilled operation, the satisfaction of successful navigation through complex traffic situations, and the cultivation of the
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