{"id":290004201,"date":"2014-03-11T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290004201"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:43:21","slug":"murder-machines-why-cars-will-kill-30000-americans-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290004201","title":{"rendered":"Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly<br \/>\nThere\u2019s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you\u2019re sober, chances are you\u2019ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWithin a decade, the number of car collisions and fatalities skyrocketed. In the first four years after World War I, more Americans died in auto accidents than had been killed during battle in Europe, but our legal system wasn\u2019t catching on. The negative effects of this unprecedented shift in transportation were especially felt in urban areas, where road space was limited and pedestrian habits were powerfully ingrained.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nEventually, the term spread to all types of automobile drivers, along with pejoratives like \u201cvampire driver\u201d or \u201cdeath driver.\u201d Political cartoons featured violent imagery of so-called \u201cspeed demons\u201d murdering innocents as they plowed through city streets in their uncontrollable vehicles. Other editorials accused drivers of being afflicted with \u201cmotor madness\u201d or \u201cmotor rabies,\u201d which implied an addiction to speed at the expense of human life.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;The Safest Place&quot; 1935 Chevrolet Film About Car Safety<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WSfdMdpH32U\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/WSfdMdpH32U<\/a><br \/>\n[Note: I get from this is that your &quot;living room surrounded by steel&quot; would be the safest place to be if it were not for other drivers&#8230; So that&#8217;s why we are so laxed of traffic law enforcement?]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/murder-machines\/\">https:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/murder-machines\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly There\u2019s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you\u2019re sober, chances are you\u2019ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter. &#8230; Within a decade, the number of car collisions and fatalities skyrocketed. In the first four &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290004201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290004201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290004201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290004201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290004201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290004201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290004201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290004201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}