ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the particular configuration of the Chilean system of automobility beginning from Freund and Martin's contention that complete automobility is for many the standard to emulate. It explores the logic of neoliberal automobility as the Chilean population and Santiago's built environment have suffered the twin impacts of the privatizatisation of pension's plans and roads. The chapter localizes automobilization within the framework of a neoliberal State that has, strategically, on the one hand, allowed transnationalized capital to extract surplus from Chilean worker's pension schemes, and, on the other, opened the country to giant transnational companies in the business of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) roads. The geographical proliferation of the neoliberal version of capitalism since the 1970s has been uneven. On the margins of neoliberal modernity stand 'others not-in cars', pot-holed streets, a historically brutal bus system, teeming sidewalks, the non-modern city of polluted air, noise, and overcrowding.
