We willingly pay 30,000 – 40,000 fatalities per year for the advantages of individual transportation by automobile.
Automobiles Quotes
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Was the first “murder by vehicle” plea-bargained down to “traffic accident” to salve the conscience of our new-born hedonism? The alibi-addicted? The anti-authority, reject-responsibility generation? Have our feckless political pimps and bureaucratic bunglers – hell-bent-for-election – caved in to an apathetic and depraved society? Speeding is fun. You can’t abrogate my pleasure. Isn’t that what […]
It is said that the only time a person feels more important than the whole of his community is when he is insane – or when he is driving. This is the basis of car culture, the idea that the world and all of the world’s people are merely in its way.
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse.
I’m not a fighter, I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Everybody I know grows claws and fur behind the wheel. It is only here, in your very own castle of rubber and steel, that you can for a short but blissful time throw off the cloak of civilization and be the raging Hun you always wanted to be.
Some guy hit my fender and I said “be fruitful and multiply” but not in those words.
The right lights high; the left light’s low; the tail light’s dim and the horn don’t blow.
