This claim could use a fact check. I’ve seen old illustrations of the first Model T driving through a town, and the noise was shown as frightening to horses pu

This claim could use a fact check. I’ve seen old illustrations of the first Model T driving through a town, and the noise was shown as frightening to horses pulling carriages. This would imply there was a feeling on the part of the “horse crowd” that the cars were displacing them. There also may have been a social push to move off of horses. Possibly reflected in disputes over speed laws, paving of roads, or lane assignments. Unsurprisingly, a Google search shows a broad literature around this, e.g., https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-03-15/the-big-shift-last-time-from-horse-dung-to-car-smog/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-03-15/the-big-shift-... (there are book-length treatments as well).