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Where does the motorist get the right 'to master' -- as he boasts -- the street? It in no way belongs to him, but to the population as a whole. Whence his right to hound the people's footsteps and dictate to them a behavior that he is justified in demanding only on his own private paths? The public street is not meant for express traffic; it belongs to the milieu of the city....
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Michael Freiherr von Pidoll - 'Der heutige Automobilismus. Ein Protest und Weckruf' (Vienna, 1912, p. 36+)