From chariots to e-scooters: transformations in transport
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You Are What You Drive
In the 16 hundreds, there's something that goes on france iesn't nhere. With blaise pascal, who and that's the origins of public transport. The rich didn't want to go on these vehicles, because if you went on one of these public buses, public carriages, it showed that you weren't wealthy enough to afford your own carriage. This is a recurring theme when we look at shared transport in the nineteenth century. And this is held up as a sort of symbol of democracy.
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