Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy

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This paper reviews the social dimensions of the rolling out and utilization of the automobile in the United States over the past one hundred years, starting with the early days steeped largely (but not exclusively) in technological idealism; moving through an age of car-ascendancy with its peak in the 1950s and 1960 (with the birth of a literal “car culture”); and into the present day of automobile dependency in t...

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55cf0577-2edf-5efa-8a78-9e593c84ff08

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10.20944/preprints202410.1038.v1