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> The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislat
by gonvaled 10y ago
> The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action.
That was quite prescient! Unfortunately we didn't do that, and cars took over the streets, caused millions of deaths and injuries, and indeed poisoned our atmosphere.
- pmontra 10y agoAnd more > The cost of producing gasoline is far beyond the financial capacity of private industry… Check the history of subsidies to the oil industry http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-energy-timeline http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-en... > In addition the development of this new power may displace the use of horses, Obviously. > which would wreck our agriculture. Probably this was wrong. Instead it got transformed and made more efficient. They didn't foresee the tractor, the tresher, etc. This is a lesson about the impossibility of thinking in advance about even the major consequences of new technologies. You get some, you miss others, so it's difficult to decide if you'll be better off. Edit: the report turned out to be fake (see noobermin's comments). It was written in 1950 as satire, when it was spot on but too late to stop cars. A lesson about checking sources.