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Hommes au volant, danger au tournant ?

Vincent Kaufmann
2024

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10.45am CET  « La voiture rend agressif ». « Rouler, c'est un plaisir synonyme de liberté ». « La voiture électrique est forcément écologique. » « Les vieilles voitures le sont jamais »… Nombreuses sont les idées reçues qui circulent sur la voiture. Autant d'imaginaires que tâchent de sonder Vincent Kaufmann, Gaëtan Mangin et Hervé Marchal, trois sociologues spécialistes des questions de mobilités dans l'ouvrage Idées reçues sur l'automobile. Voici un extrait tiré du chapitre « L'automobile est une affaire d'hommes » où les auteurs se penchent sur le fait que l'on perçoit souvent la voiture et les violences liées à son utilisation comme typiquement masculines. En exergue, cette citation de Michel Tournier : « Aujourd'hui, c'est la voiture qui symbolise la virilité. La conduite automobile « virile » fait des milliers de morts chaque année. »

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Vincent Kaufmann
2024

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/0c10bbd5-c356-49ea-b1ce-100102dd467d

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Car

A car, or an automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people, not cargo. French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while French-born-Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion powered automobile in 1808. The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

History of the automobile

Development of the automobile started in 1672 with the invention of the first steam-powered vehicle, which led to the creation of the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation, built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769. Inventors began to branch out at the start of the 19th century, creating the de Rivas engine, one of the first internal combustion engines, and an early electric motor. Samuel Brown later tested the first industrially applied internal combustion engine in 1826.