David Buccola’s Reviews > Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives > Status Update

“Getting a drivers license essential right of passage in this country, when it stands above all for freedom from the family and the family schedule.”

Could anything more encapsulate what’s wrong with our society than the fact that we seek freedom from the people who live the most?

The author mentions the rule of thumb most drivers have about how many miles per hour is acceptable to drive over the speed limit. Nobody ever questions the fact that universally drivers understand speed limit to mean speed minimum. Drivers routinely get pulled over for driving under the maximum which should be normal.

Together with Firestone, Standard Oil, and Phillips Petroleum, GM eliminated their competition, buying and then ripping up entire street car systems in 45 cities between 1936 and 1950.

After reading the preface my hopes for this book are much lower.