tl;dr People who drive cars, Dean pointed out, do consider themselves to be “pedestrians” in other situations—that is, when they themselves are walking—and the

tl;dr People who drive cars, Dean pointed out, do consider themselves to be “pedestrians” in other situations—that is, when they themselves are walking—and they agree that safety laws are important. Still, no matter what they may say, they continue to do whatever they want. If the term had been available to him, he might have used the pejorative car brain to describe the conundrum he was observing. It describes both a state of mind (“you’re car-brained”) and a type of person (“she is a car brain”).