How Did The Model T Change American Society

While the design was still in progress, containing many safety issues; Henry Ford’s Model T integrated a new way of transportation into American society, allowing for quicker travel and an overall better American lifestyle. Therefore, the Model T was an affective invention that opened a new portal for transportation and increased American’s standard of living. At the beginning of the century, Henry Ford invented the Model T and began mass producing the car in 1907. By the 1920’s the Model T made up of 55 percent of car production in American. The Model T’s popularity and simplicity exemplified the American dream through a normal working man's ability to work hard and buy luxury items such as the Model T.

The mass produced Model T faced issues

The well-built Model T gave unseen power to American drivers unlike any horse carriage any driver has ever seen; "You of the automobile class are utterly regardless of the danger to pedestrians”. Citizens are oblivious to the power that a good American produced Ford engines, because of this, new drivers created safety problems for pedestrians. Due to the thrill that a motor vehicle on the road brings to a driver, they feel a sense of empowerment as if they are better than a normal pedestrian walking across the street. For example, an individual in New York City was charged with speeding and the judge claimed that drivers like the defendant just “toot [their] horns to see the people run, but you never slow up." In this scenario the judge conveys his claim that the defendant attempts to take control of the road without giving the right of way to the defenseless pedestrians on the roads. This exemplifies a drivers inability to control the responsibility that comes with being able to drive a motorized vehicle in American society. American

The popular Model T design brought together the market as society all at once to become focused on the new technology instead of being divided between different options. The powerful and reliable Ford Model T was seen at the time as a futuristic invention taking man off the backs of farm animals and into the luxurious leather seats of the most popular motor vehicle of the century; "whatever the horse can do, the automobile can do a hundred times better." At the time the Model T was the most popular motor vehicle on the market and demanded the attention of any and all citizens no matter their social class. The car’s original price of $850 took a major decline down to only $298 after Ford began to mass produce the Model T. This decline in 1923 allowed for the average middle class citizen to no longer have to look up to the upper class but instead be able to afford the luxury of owning a motor vehicle, therefore increasing their standard of living. Due to newly integrated mass production process for the Model T, the average middle class citizen no longer has to rely on public transportation to get across town for work. Instead they can rely on the Ford Model T motor vehicle for a faster and more convenient means of