Let us retain that wonderful freedom while economizing today, and encouraging automotive design goals that preserve a world we'll want to drive in tomorrow. Everything in Life is somewhere else, and you can get there in a car. E. B. White. One Man s Meat, 1944. Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner.
They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile. Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked. Anonymous Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.