Special medical techniques have been developed to handle such accidents. Only automobiles cause more injuries. The domesticating machine is deadly. At the same time, an environmentalist critique of the hundreds of millions of small garden engines in the United States develops. Legislation regulating air and noise pollution is eventually passed and enforced.
New standards turn old mowers into villains.
Companies are even encouraged to buy and destroy the old machines to earn clean-air credits. The films that use the lawn mower as the paradigm of the dangers of technology parallel this legislation, building on the new fears. After all, the lawn itself is a technology, an artificial nature. Every aspect of the lawn, starting with the grass itself, is the product of advanced technology. The dark side of the lawn emerges as this technological character becomes more and more evident.