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Hostility on the highway...
More often, police are victims of the rising freeway fury. Last year 413 California highway patrolmen were attacked and injured by people they had pulled over to the side of the road, up from 244 in 1973. The Los Angeles police report 364 incidents last year in which vehicles were used for assault...
...self-assertion literature has helped push motorists to violence. But University of Chicago Psychiatrist Lawrence Z. Freedman, who served as an Adviser to the Presidential Commission on Violence, may be closer to the mark. Heterogeneous groups tend to produce more violence than homogeneous ones, he says, and the highway population is predictably heterogeneous, filled with drivers of different ethnic backgrounds and classes. In other words, many naturally aggressive people tamp down their hostility on their home turf, but unleash it on "aliens" after minor collisions...
...missing, yet they seem all the more present by their absence. Perhaps Frank's photographs represent the most powerful photographic view of America. The symbol of the American flag occurs repeatedly in his work; his photograph of the women and child in a car at the side of a highway expresses the "haunted" quality of America, its vast space and extremes--of hot and cold, of violence, exhaustion and pity. While Evans' photographs sometimes speak less forcefully than Franks', the message in the retrospective and in his book American Photographs is clear. As Trachtenberg concludes, "Each picture completes itself only...
...swerve to dodge an obstacle without lurching out of control. When the test is performed with the Omni and Horizon, the cars do not begin to veer until speeds approaching 60 m.p.h. Many full-size sedans will do so at much lower speeds. In fact, every car on the highway will do so if it is put through this test at a fast enough speed. If nothing else, the squabble over the Omni and Horizon highlights the need to let buyers know just how fast their cars can be driven before that critical speed is reached...