The North American car is designed and used for 
privacy. Unlike the European car, it is a big enclosed 
space, well suited to the business of meditation and 
decision-making. Almost as much as TV, the car 
demands peripheral vision which undermines the 
“tunnel vision” needed for reading. The motor car, 
then, for us is not only a means of transportation, 
but a way of achieving a deeply needed privacy 
when outside.

It goes without saying that there is very little privacy 
in the North American home because we do not seek it 
there but, rather, outside in our cars. An unexpected 
factor in changing our attitudes to the inside and