General question car sickness

I don’t know what the answer is or even if there is a solution, but my beloved Abbie had the same problem. It was so bad that her “sick response” became instant as soon as she was in the car (meaning she started drooling and vomiting before I even got in my side to start the engine). I was told that some dogs’ ears are less developed when they are young. Dogs usually grow out of this but in the case of my Abbie, it became a learned response to the car and she did not “grow out of it” until she was middle age. She never did like the car, even when she stopped getting sick but she tolerated it and usually just fell asleep. Your dog’s reaction is physical/biological. Training won’t help, increasing exposure to the car won’t help. She will grow out of it, hopefully before the response becomes ingrained like it did with my little girl. (fyi – I myself was prone to car sickness as a child and still sensitive to it as an adult…no prodding, playing, distraction, increased exposure helps. It’s the inner ear telling me (and your dog) one thing, while her vision tells her another. Motion sick – plain and simple and the feeling is just horrendous. I suggest giving your dog something even though it makes her groggy (that’s how it works). Her misery is real.