Several things have effected the way we live our lives in the past hundred years , but none to the extent that cars do. "The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds at his Oldsmobile factory in 1902." (Wikipedia-Automobile)
We don't even think twice as we step into our metal giants and move down the streets. We don't realize the amount of convenience and comfort that these pieces of machinery provide. It seems that if you live anywhere other than a major city, you require transportation to merely go about your life. Most of us don't have a school or a grocery store or a hospital within walking distance.
Society has been developed around the assumed notion that cars will be available and people will drive them. Once the ideas of cars was assumed, we started to spread out our living spaces as our capabilities in mass transportation spread. We walk outside, turn a key, and take control of an object that can reach a speed of 100 miles per hour in less than fifteen seconds.
Since the early 1900's, we've also used design and looks to attract people. Many cars are sold for their looks rather than their efficiency. This need for cars to be socially acceptable or even to be used as a status symbol is very telling. The design of cars is very closely linked to a social aspect of life.
We take these objects for granted everyday, but without them, we would all be so very lost.
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