With the publication yesterday of the Department for Transport's (DfT) road safety statistics for last year, there has been much focus on the revelation that – contrary to previous official assertions – "speeding" is not a major killer on our roads.
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Above all, the early critics of the automobile blamed its speed. Not until the mid 1920s was the inherent danger of speed widely questioned. In 1925 The Outlook, a popular magazine of news commentary, reported of traffic accidents that "the chief danger, it is now generally conceded, is not speeding, but bad and careless driving by immature or reckless drivers." Today the distinction is not obvious. Speedingis "bad" or "careless" driving, indulged in by the "immature or reckless." Yet our definition of speeding has changed. Fifty or 60 miles per hour may be prudent driving, or even so slow as to disrupt the flow of traffic. We do not call this speeding; for us, speedingspeeding is unusual. Before the mid 1920s, however, speeding was what an automobile was made to do. When we speak today of a "speeding bullet,," we mean a bullet merely doing what it was made to do. In the first quarter of the twntieth century, this sense of "speeding" applied to automobiles as well. The car distinguished itself from streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians by going faster—by "speeding." It was inherently a speeding machine. The car's capacity to speed was its chief advantage over other modes.
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Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), p.
Above all, the early critics of the automobile blamed its speed. Not until the mid 1920s was the inherent danger of speed widely questioned. In 1925 The Outlook, a popular magazine of news commentary, reported of traffic accidents that "the chief danger, it is now generally conceded, is not speeding, but bad and careless driving by immature or reckless drivers." Today the distinction is not obvious. Speedingis "bad" or "careless" driving, indulged in by the "immature or reckless." Yet our definition of speeding has changed. Fifty or 60 miles per hour may be prudent driving, or even so slow as to disrupt the flow of traffic. We do not call this speeding; for us, speeding is unusual. Before the mid 1920s, however, speeding was what an automobile was made to do. When we speak today of a "speeding bullet,," we mean a bullet merely doing what it was made to do. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, this sense of "speeding" applied to automobiles as well. The car distinguished itself from streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians by going faster—by "speeding." It was inherently a speeding machine. The car's capacity to speed was its chief advantage over other modes.
Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), p. 31
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Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), p. 31
January 22, 2020