proposed that street uses that impeded automobiles were misuses of the street.

While nearly all accidents could be explained by any of several faults, certain explanations were favored at the expense of others.

Walking, however, was obviously necessary, and pedestrians were virtually incapable of causing accidental injury to others.

Success in such historical investigations requires not merely looking back from where we stand today at the actors of times past, but getting back to them, so we can stand next to them and adopt their perspective.

order.

If workers were shown safer methods, accident records would improve without expensive new capital investment.

As long as automobiles were "pleasure cars" there were few grounds for tolerating the injury and death they caused.

The automotive city was not simply the product of mass demand for automobiles. In 1920 there was a free market for automobiles but not for the use of city streets.

In 1939 motordom's work culminated in one of the most monumental works of promotional showmanship in the history of technology: the Futuramamodel depicting the motorized city of 1960, displayed in General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the New York World's Fair. It was a motor age dream city, entirely dependent on automobiles but