On Sci-fi Vehicles: Our Cars, Our Selves, Good and Bad.
The philosopher William James was once speculating about personal identity--what makes us what we are, over time. He said words to the effect of 'first comes the body--and next comes the clothes.' Which is to say, we are what we wear. Had he lived 100 years later, he might have said 'and next comes the car'--we are what we drive, or so it seems for many at least. Vehicles of all sorts are a perennial playground of science-fiction, and how they are depicted--smooth, ergonom
