In the 1930s, British philosopher C.E.M. Joad described an increasingly popular new mode of transport back then as "one of the most contemptible soul-destroying and devitalising pursuits that the ill-fortune of misguided humanity has ever imposed upon its credulity".
He was describing cars.
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