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Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automobile Age
Posted in Research by Devin Maeztri on June 22nd, 2009
Book: Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automobile Age
Author: Brian Ladd
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Year: 2008
A review by Milton Takei
Brian Ladd’s book, Autophobia,is a history of the love and hatred people have felt for the automobile. Autophobes such as myself can take comfort in how, from the beginning of the age of the automobile, some people were against cars, for example because motorists disturbed the tranquility of both the city and the countryside. The dismaying part is that the attraction of the automobile soon overwhelmed the opposition.
The book is particularly strong in pointing out the injuries and deaths that automobiles cause. The World Health Organization estimates that automobile incidents kill over a million people yearly.
See: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/81/3/WHONews0303.pdf