It also appears that internal gas engines are on the decline as electric replaces them. Horses, on the other hand, appear to holding steady in relevance.
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How does that go......you either die a hero or...
Brief history lesson: The motorcar saved New York City.
So before cars became widely used everyone used horse drawn carts, everyone knows this. What you may not be aware of is how much horses left behind. Horse feces was apparently so prevalent in New York City that it piled up on the sides of the roads like snow. That's not even counting the corpses of horses left if they died. Here's a fun article if you want to read more: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urban-design-great-horse-manure-crisis-1894/
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How does that go......you either die a hero or...
So before cars became widely used everyone used horse drawn carts, everyone knows this. What you may not be aware of is how much horses left behind. Horse feces was apparently so prevalent in New York City that it piled up on the sides of the roads like snow. That's not even counting the corpses of horses left if they died. Here's a fun article if you want to read more: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urban-design-great-horse-manure-crisis-1894/