automobiles

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  10/5/2020
  

  The Nobility of Mobility: A Road Trip Through Racism

  Historian Chris West notes that “driving in a racist society” persists as a “gut-wrenching horror" in a new PBS documentary "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  How Mask Fights Echo Seat Belt Fights: ‘The Right To Be Splattered All Over Their Windshields’

  Elizabeth Dole’s fight for seat belt laws in the 1980s inspired the sort of rhetoric and division America is seeing today over government mandates to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/25/2020
  

  New York Opens Traffic-Clogged Streets to People During Pandemic, the City’s Latest Redesign in Times of Dramatic Change

  by Amy D. Finstein

  The COVID-19 pandemic presents large cities with an opportunity to remake public space around different priorities, putting people before automobiles. 

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• 3/15/2020
  

  "Faster" Author Neal Bascomb on the Jewish Auto Racer who Defied Hitler

  by Neal Bascomb

  Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage.

• SOURCE: NYT
  7-19-13
  

  Blower Bentley heading to auction was modified

  An extremely rare Blower Bentley will cross the auction block at a Bonhams sale scheduled for Aug. 16 in Carmel, Calif. Experts agree on its rarity, but differ on how pristine an example this machine truly is.In the 94-year history of Bentley Motors, perhaps none of its creations is held in more esteem than the Blower Bentley.The more powerful supercharged version of the 4.5-liter, 4-cylinder engine was the idea of Tim Birkin, who along with Dudley Benjafield and Woolf Barnato, comprised the original “Bentley Boys” team of racers. The Blower was fast, but it consumed profligate amounts of fuel and was not particularly reliable. Ettore Bugatti derided the Blower Bentley as “the world’s fastest truck.”...