Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year

By Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly

There’s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you’re sober, chances are you’ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter.
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Within a decade, the number of car collisions and fatalities skyrocketed. In the first four years after World War I, more Americans died in auto accidents than had been killed during battle in Europe, but our legal system wasn’t catching on. The negative effects of this unprecedented shift in transportation were especially felt in urban areas, where road space was limited and pedestrian habits were powerfully ingrained.
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Eventually, the term spread to all types of automobile drivers, along with pejoratives like “vampire driver” or “death driver.” Political cartoons featured violent imagery of so-called “speed demons” murdering innocents as they plowed through city streets in their uncontrollable vehicles. Other editorials accused drivers of being afflicted with “motor madness” or “motor rabies,” which implied an addiction to speed at the expense of human life.
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"The Safest Place" 1935 Chevrolet Film About Car Safety
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[Note: I get from this is that your &quot;living room surrounded by steel&quot; would be the safest place to be if it were not for other drivers... So that's why we are so laxed of traffic law enforcement?]

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