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Peter Norton

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Historian, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.

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Reena Mahajan has captured the moment in July 1924 when 33-year-old Paul G. Hoffman, L.A.’s most successful auto dealer, hired 30-year-old Miller McClintock, sometime Chaucer scholar, to write a traffic ordinance that would help Hoffman sell more Studebakers. We are its heirs.

Reena Mahajan has captured the moment in July 1924 when 33-year-old Paul G. Hoffman, L.A.’s most successful auto dealer, hired 30-year-old Miller McClintock, sometime Chaucer scholar, to write a traffic ordinance that would help Hoffman sell more Studebakers. We are its heirs.