Re:You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You
by Natsu on Saturday February 04, 2012 @04:36PM
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True, but somewhat misleading, because lawmakers found other ways to effectively ban cars:
"backlash against these large speedy vehicles resulted in the passage of the Locomotive Act (1865), which required self-propelled vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn"
"backlash against these large speedy vehicles resulted in the passage of the Locomotive Act (1865), which required self-propelled vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile