What Would A Society Be Without Cars?

Imagine how life would be if our society did not have cars. Today, our society is dependent on cars for our daily routines. From transporting our food, clothes, and technology to just going to the store across the street, cars are a very important part of our society. In the 19th century, only the wealthy and upper middle class had access to automobiles, and they only used cars for fancy transportation and to show off their money. This was due to the extreme prices of cars in the 19th century. With these high prices not many people could afford them, especially not the working class. Henry Ford revolutionized the automotive industry in the

According to Foner, “By 1960, 80 percent of American families owned at least one car, and 14 percent had two or more, nearly all manufactured in the United States”(). Many families owned automobiles, for it enabled long-distance vacationing and commuting to work, malls, etc. The ability for people to travel farther distances through means other than trains and trolleys stimulated a population shift from cities to suburbs. Approximately one third of Southern California, a mainly suburban area, was “paved over with roads and parking lots,” hence showing a transformation in American landscape. Infrastructure had to accommodate for cars as they became central to American life. Not only did the automobile alter the American landscape with a web of roads and freeways, but it also led to “the construction of motels, drive-in movie theaters, and roadside eating establishments”(). The automobile revolutionized America, as it allowed for individual mobility and private choice-a symbol of

In the early 1900s, the United States of America would see the introduction of a piece of technology that would change the way we as a society would look at travel. Henry Ford began production of Model T, the vehicle soon found its way into many American homes. By 1927, the Ford Motor Company had sold nearly 15 million of the mass produced, affordable car. The automobile was no longer a luxury but, a necessity for Americans. During the infancy of the automobile, the roads where nothing more than a mere rutted up path through the country side. Though shortly, people realized the need for better roads. The only problem was, who was going to pay the bill?

Cars are a stimulus to the American world today it's everything we breath on we depend on them so, if we don't have the cars we need then where would we be in the world? In the 1920’s it was all about auto racing. The 1920’s were the The Golden age of racing. From the 1920’s cars, the different types of automotive vehicles started getting better and faster. Each year from the 1920’s Chevy, for an example, has gotten more qualifications and upgrades to the better improved the quality of the car.

Threats of substitutes: In U.S., an automobile was considered as necessity so for every adult there was car on roads. Even for inter-city travel more than 70% time cars were used. Buses, trains and other means didn’t have much impact. The growing array of higher priced imported models had negative effect.

Karl Benz invented the first automobile in 1866; it has changed the world in how we commute every day. From riding in carriages to now cutting our time travel whether it is riding a bus or our on car. It has become more of a necessity in today's world to have a car because its something that we choose to have in our daily life that it is a choice that is high on the priority list to own. As to wealthier people the type of car you drive puts in a different class. Where some get the choice of car that they want others have a certain budget on what to look for. The way an automobile symbolizes today, changed in society, and how a car has become a collection.

America’s modern society thrives on the need for personal vehicles. The desire to be an individual is evident in the choice of a car; it states personality and class, and it represents independence and freedom. However, if it was not for World War II, cars would not be what they are today.

Cars allow freedom for many Americans. Without cars, we would likely live in a very different era where jobs had to be close by, the economy growing slowly, and a very loosely connected America. However, cars changed all that, and allowed for greater distances between home and work, ramping up our economy, and connecting all our major cities soon afterwards.

The automobile created a more mobile society, broke down the stability of family life and the traditional morality. There were so many changes in family life, especially in young adults. People were now able to go out, and travel farther than they have been able to go before. Now families did not have to live in the city, they can live in suburbs and travel to work. They were able to get out of the bad neighborhoods in the city and into a better home to raise a family. Young adults wanted to get away from the farm life, and the automobile offered that escape. These people were now able to start their own life and not take on what their family’s traditions

I believe that we should keep the automobile and it should remain a central part in all American’s lives. To many of us the automobile represents freedom, and if we remove the automobile from America you are taking our freedom because we wouldn’t be able to travel wherever whenever we want. We would have to take the bus or a train or a plane and it would limit our ability to travel. Not to mention that people who first bought cars the car was very foreign to them. Before the car people had to bike walk or take a train which took effort. When the car came out they could just hop in the car and go wherever they wanted to.

An automobile is a motor vehicle that is used mainly used for transportation. Most automobiles are usually used to transport people and goods. In past times, people used horses and carriages to get to their desired destination. Since the invention of cars, transportation has become even more advanced and faster. Automobiles had a huge effect on American Society. It provided faster more advanced travel, helped people get to where they wanted to go and it became basic need in life. It also helped industries boom and bring in a vast amount of money for the economy.

People need cars to get to their family members in a different state in a quicker time, or if they're on a business trip. People these days have a lot on their plate they must get done in a short period time, so cars help them do that. If they weren’t invented it would be impossible for someone do it close to what a car would do. For example, if a family was going shopping for clothes and had to go to three different stores but they’re all in different cities. The car would take them about a twenty minute every trip, but on a horse, it would take about an hour every trip which takes more of your time out of the day for you to get other stuff done.

The automobile needs to stay central in Americans lives for one of the many reasons, it offers people freedom. Before the automobile was invented people couldn’t just get in their car and go. Americans were depending on other transportations, like the train, their own feet, and a horse. Once the auto mobile was invented people weren’t dictated on where they had to live. As said in America’s Key to Freedom “People can now live where they wanted. They didn’t have to live

Cars need to be central in our lives, because without them we couldn’t do much. Without a car you would have to live in walking distance from your job. Also you have to live in walking distance of a grocery store or you can’t have food or snacks in your home. You are also stuck inside the city you live and if you don’t have a car it’s hard to go different places.

The people of Richland specifically enjoyed their cars. Cars have been a status symbol since their inception and Richland residents unsurprisingly owned plenty of them. Brown even goes as far to sarcastically remark on their car ownership: “In Richland, a car helped to span the long distances between sprawling lawns and wide streets under a hot sun or sharp wind.” Brown may be poking fun at the Richland residents, but she raises a valid point that the cars may have been bought out of excess. In an ideal suburban landscape, the car was used as another layer of keeping the image of a perfect life possible. Cars were a part of the lives of Richland residents that they had control over. While they could not pursue the American Dream of owning a home, they could approximate it by owning a car and driving it around their confined town. The idea of driving a car around a suburban landscape may seem silly today, but the car helped ground the Richland residents and give them a false sense of agency in their lives. The sense of agency might have helped them cope with the fact they worked with highly toxic plutonium and lived in a strange cookie-cutter