The Perfect Pedestrian (1927)

Like a lot of our problems: They were obviously a problem when they were new and continued to be obviously a problem up until they'd propagandized generations that grew up with them being a reality. It's not so much a matter of the people of the past being dim-witted enough to go in for these bad ideas but rather the robber barons who're interested in them spending a lot of time to normalize them in order to get much richer off of them at all our continued expense.

when cars first became a thing people actually hated them way more than we do now, a significant chunk of people outright wanted cars to be basically entirely banned and were successful in legislating things we'd find extremely silly nowadays, like requiring a person walking in front of the car waving a red flag, or coming to a full halt and like.. dismantling the car when a horse passes it!

at this point cars are like an eldrich entity so deeply ingrained in our minds that we simply cannot imagine a world where they don't exist, it's insane.