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No one broke any laws making horseless carriages, we should not ignore that.
by wormwood28 15y ago
No one broke any laws making horseless carriages, we should not ignore that.
- Natsu 15y agoTrue, but somewhat misleading, because lawmakers found other ways to effectively ban cars: "backlash against these large speedy vehicles resulted in the passage of the Locomotive Act (1865), which required self-propelled vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile