Dangers of Automobile Travel Reconsidered

Roger Roots

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2007, vol. 66, issue 5, pages 959-975

Abstract: America's reliance on automobile transportation has attracted the scorn of academics for decades. Automobiles, it is said, are dangerous to life and limb, environmentally unfriendly, and wasteful of space and resources. Moreover, say the critics, automobiles produce inefficient individualistic social behavior that balkanizes communities and shatters the otherwise cohesive nature of American life. Copyright 2007 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc..

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