1. Carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles account for about one fourth of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. See Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, The Environmental Costs of Transportation Energy use (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992), p. 37. Also, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for every age from 6 through 33 years old. See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 1992 Traffic Safety Facts (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1993).
2. See, for example, M. Bunge, “Five Buds of Techno-Philosophy,” Technology in Society 1 (1979).
3. For a critique of the thesis of the neutrality of technology see, for example, D. Dickson, Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical Change ( New York: University Books, 1974 )
4. L. Winner, The Whale and the Reactor,(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986)(hereafter cited as Winner, The Whale)
5. H. Oberdiek, “Technology: Autonomous or Neutral”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4, (1990): 67–77 (hereafter cited as Oberdiek, Technology)