Cambridge-educated journalist and author—and Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipient—Bryan Appleyard has mainly covered the arts and sciences in his books and articles, so in some ways, he seems unlikely as the writer of a fresh history of the automobile. Yet his new book,
Yet it does raise a larger question of how to integrate this warring, bifurcated knowledge into planning for the future. "The more narrow thesis of the book is that cars, as we know them, are likely to change into something else," Appleyard said.Appleyard has a long history with cars, fromof "identifying every car that I saw passing" to a life littered with problematic or oddball vehicles.