What Does It Mean When a Prank 60 Mph Sign Goes Unnoticed?
the idea that the red light should go above the green one, became an international standard in the 1920s with the help of the League of Nations, which held conferences on road signs and traffic rules starting in 1926. The United States did not participate, but as the world’s leading automotive nation, it acted as a de facto standards-setter. France
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In a speech in 1906, Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, worried that loutish motorists were fanning the flames of resentment toward the rich: “Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth with all its independence and careles
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In December 1924, Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, convened the first National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, with the aim of drawing up a set of safety rules that could be used across the country. The industry got Hoover to water down his initial hostility toward cars and installed its own representatives on the key committees
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
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