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Along with COVID-19 and climate-fueled disasters, Americans in 2020 are at increased risk of a much more insidious threat: death while walking. Right of Way shines a light on the distressing spike in pedestrian fatalities in the United States and documents why this epidemic has not proceeded uniformly across the country but instead has disproportionately devastated low-income communities and people of color. To do this, Schmitt weaves a story of three primary factors colliding: increases in driving, increases in automobile size (as tastes shift from sedans to trucks and SUVs), and the displacement of lower income people from walkable city centers to suburbs whose streets are outright hostile to pedestrians. What is so galling about this crisis, which reached roughly 6,300 total deaths in 2018 (a multidecade high), is the “strange tolerance” American society has for it, even though it is largely preventable with …