What Our Motor Vehicles Reveal About Ourselves

Jim Mason
4 min readApr 9, 2022

Are our vehicles machines with people in them, or are they people with mechanical extensions?

Photo by Kevin Schmid on Unsplash

When I’m driving a car, it’s pretty clear: I, the driver, am in command of a powerful machine that is a mechanical extension of myself.

Older cars mainly provide extensions of my action capabilities. I can move faster and hit things harder than I could without the…

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Jim Mason

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