ABSTRACT
Our attitude to our own car and to everyone else’s is a well-known mid twentieth-century characteristic which is not always recognized as a planner’s tool. There is a natural tendency towards we-and-theyness about the whole problem. Once in a car, most of us instinctively want to drive as near to our objective as possible. It is the ninety-nine other people with the same idea who are breaking the solitude, disturbing the silence and churning up the field track. We all have schizophrenic tendencies as we change positions from walking up to the car and driving it. But few of us can still be thinking back to the days when it was positive progress to get a motor car as near to its objective as possible, whatever the result.
