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Automobiles: 'A Very Attractive Trap'

NEW YORK, May 4, 2011 - Weighing China's transportation choices, MIT Senior Lecturer Frederick Salvucci describes the pernicious long-term effects a car culture has had on the US. (4 min., 15 sec.)

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