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When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
It would be a massive cultural and behavioural shift to radically recast the automobile as a symbol not of freedom, but of restriction.
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
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In the city street of 1920 the automobile was a nuisance, even an intruder. Automobiles were extravagant in their use of scarce space, they were dangerous (especially to non-motorists), they had to be parked, and they served only a small minority of city people.
Peter D. Norton • Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
"motordom." Often they presented their position clothed in a rhetoric of freedom.9
Peter D. Norton • Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
As long as automobiles were "pleasure cars" there were few grounds for tolerating the injury and death they caused.