Motor vehicle? What does Wikipedia have to say about that? Oh, interesting. Mainly Wikipedia focuses on the car. Actually, it specifically says that trains are not considered motor vehicles because a motor vehicle doesn’t run on tracks. The United States had the highest per-capita car ownership in the mid-2000s, but it’s growth slowed during the Great Recession. Projected growth rates show that China’s and India’s car fleets will eventually surpass that of the United States.
20180927/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle
But, the really interesting thing that Wikipedia has to say about cars is how it compares the cost of motor vehicle transport with non-motorized transport, in the next article. Specifically, it mentions a measure introduced by Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich called consumer speed. Basically, you take the amount of money someone spends on their car for service, compute the amount of time it took them to earn that money, and add that time onto the total transit time. After all, this is, in fact, the amount of time and money spent solely for maintaining the car. Effectively, that adjustment slows down the total speed of the car. Matter of fact, some 1970s numbers basically put the consumer speed of a car to only 5 miles per hour, a commuting speed that less developed countries travel at without the use of a motor vehicle.
Rail was retired in many cities as motor vehicles made way. Nevertheless, eventually rail met a revival and was brought back into the cities.
20180927/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_car_on_societies
Wow, now this automotive city Wikipedia article is really interesting. Car-dependent automotive cities? It was written out quite accurately in 1950s post-war city planning. However, little did anyone anticipate the negative effects that such ideas would bring out.
20180927/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city
20180930/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_costs
Oh, interesting. Bike boom. Yeah, that’s something that I haven’t learned very much about in detail before, though I knew it sort of existed.
20180930/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_boom
Foot-and-mouth outbreaks in United Kingdom. Interesting, a major event that I haven’t really heard much about, but had a big impact on that area. Also, it’s interesting of the mention of the earlier study and what has changed in terms of agricultural practices since the first outbreak that led to the second one still being quite a disaster. Foot-and-mouth outbreak is a disease that affects clovenhoof, pigs, and cattle, but it doesn’t really affect humans. The virus catching on the feet of people can tred it around and make it highly contagious, so it’s important to restrict human traffic when there is the outbreak among animals too.
20180930/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak
20180930/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-and-mouth_disease
20180930/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak