The US Supreme Court finally declared the law on which he was arrested as too ambiguous. And Lawson walked. Cars have no doubt changed the nature of human interaction. Even more dramatic is their influence on the nature of Nature itself. The car is emblematic of the human enterprise that is killing off so many species today.
Many scientists say that biological diversity is declining at a dangerous rate.
Meanwhile, the artificial diversity of the machine explodes as we humans repopulate the depleted biosphere with creatures of our own invention. There are less than a thousand Siberian tigers alive today, and some 660 of them are in zoos. There are around 400 million motor vehicles. It is ironic that big cats and other animals are so often evoked to sell cars. Others have noted how cars often resemble animals in their design, a likeness that according to cultural critic Andrew Wernick has traditionally accounted for a large part of the car s appeal.