How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream

Shot and co-directed by Benjamin Boult: http://benjaminboult.com/

Ben is unbelievably talented, check out the rest of his work on the website above and hire him for your projects. Based on an article by Spencer R. Scott P.h.D.

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Sources & Citations

• That street we spent like 2 extra hours finding and filming at for a maximum of 12 seconds of screen time: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/g26cWAt_H2Zy5cnkwPS3AwmRzSc=/0x0:3548x2844/1720x0/filters:focal(0x0:3548x2844):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2936360/82104296.0.jpg

• First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety: https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/assets/24P11-Hoover-Address-1924.pdf

• Car Deaths:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

  • https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-history/2015/04/26/auto-traffic-history-detroit/26312107/

• War losses: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses_usa#:~:text=American%20losses%20in%20World%20War,the%20influenza%20epidemic%20of%201918.

• Jaywalking (and a lot of stuff from Peter Norton: 

  • https://www.researchgate.net/figure/With-motordoms-help-Los-Angeles-like-Washington-elevated-jay-walking-from-an_fig7_236825193

  • https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2934608/Norton_Street_Rivals.0.pdf

  • https://www.slideshare.net/naparstek/no-accident-urban-design-motor-vehicle-violence

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Europe

  • https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

• Article that inspired this whole piece by Spencer R. Scott PhD

  • https://blog.usejournal.com/a-grand-theft-auto-industry-stole-our-streets-and-our-future-a2145d6e10e2

  • https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/Kwinty.pdf

• That racist ad from the intro: https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/uploads/2014/03/cincinnati-ad.jpg

• Charles Wilson Quotes:

  • https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/09/05/fact-check-did-a-gm-president-really-tell-congress-whats-good-for-gm-is-good-for-america

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System

  • https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/essays/wilson-1953-secretary-of-defense#:~:text=Charles%20Erwin%20Wilson%20was%20the,1953%20to%20October%208%2C%201957.

• Model Municipal Traffic Ordinance: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435011602570&view=1up&seq=14

• Paying for roads and a National Highway Users Conference Retrospective:

  • https://www.highways.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/historical_milestones.pdf

  • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/mcdonaldtoll.cfm

  • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/tollroad.cfm

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20080215220316/http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH38/Norton.html#29

  • https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20for%20Roads%20vUS.pdf

• Interstate Highway Act 1956

  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268226232_The_Intrastate_Highway_Act_of_1956_Changed_America

  • https://archive.org/details/generallocationo00unitrich/mode/2up

• Highways and poverty:

  • https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/

  • https://www.prrac.org/pdf/mohl.pdf

  • https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=4667aafe1002441ea3a487110b136e98

  • https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/133/3/1107/4850660

• GM Street Cars:

  • https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demise

  • http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/testimony/1974_statement_bradford_c_snell_s1167.pdf

  • https://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-subway-buses

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