“Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains”: The Constraining Freedom of the Automobile

This chapter contains sections titled: The Puffing Devil and the Orukter Amphibolos: The Diffusion of Cars in Society, A “$1,200 Studebaker with a California Top”: The Legitimation of the Automobile, The Impact of the Car on the Social Ecology, “My Best Friends Live in the City but by No Means in This Neighborhood”: Reciprocal Expectations, The “Constraining Power” of the Car Culture