Driving the vote? Automobility, ideology, and political partisanship

Part of the “character of domination” of the system of automobility concerns the

way that it self-generates its own forces of propulsion, expelling alternative pro-

ductive systems and mobilities, and locking-in future (urban) development tra-

jectories (Sheller and Urry 2000). One aspect of this involves the political

dimension, by which automobility generates political demands for policies and

programmes that promote and enhance the system at the expense of competitors.

Of course, the political power of the auto-industrial complex is immense, and