1906 driving

[Des]

Looks like people have always driven like twats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

[autofive]

odd thing to watchloads of suicidal cyclists and motoristswheres the location?usa?

[scaryoldcortina]

San francisco by the looks of it..and yeah.. that's rather trippy to watch ;D

[Des]

San Francisco, before their big earthquake, I want a time machine.

[Tayne]

7093/

[seth]

I was thinking New York too. Looks like the equipment being used to do the filming was most intriguing given a lot of the reactions it got.

[VWPowered]

presenting, the latest 1906 Google Car

[michiel]

What a great video, I'll be watching that again. I often wondered what it was like when cars were still outnumbered by horses and they all shared the road... what a great mess, GR8 for eliminating dumbasses from traffic.

[STUNO]

Amazing and slightly terrifying. thanks for that

[ifc63]

At first I thought the guy crossing in front a 0.47 seconds was talking on his mobile (which thoroughly confused me ) but then I realised he was clutching onto his bowler hat

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

  ifc63 said:

At first I thought the guy crossing in front a 0.47 seconds was talking on his mobile (which thoroughly confused me ) but then I realised he was clutching onto his bowler hat

I thought the same! A man ahead of his time? Or simply a man with a poor fitting bowler?

[scooters]

the way to check the city would be to work out which US city had trolley cars which worked on the cable and drag method at the time.If you look at the tram rails you will see a trench runnning between them. They had these on the Edinburgh trams - essentially you have an enormous steam engine at the depot and it winds a continuous cable round the tram route - the trams go faser and slower and stop and start by gripping the cable.They have this on the trolley at New Orleans - I am not sure about SF but until powerful 'leccy motors were avaliable this was a common way of moving trams - slowly

[scooters]

being bored I searched it out - definately San Fran and definately pre the 1906 earthquake - interesting that most of what you see was flattened

[Tayne]

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[Andrew353w]

Weird, really weird! I saw this piece of film as a backing video to a concert I saw in The Hague, in Holland!

 

Some similar cars....

This one's my late Grandmother, in the 1920's with an Essex car. These American vehicles were apparently never officially imported to the U.K., so this right hand drive one remains an enigma...

I've no idea what this one is...

A Ford Pilot, I think...

 

More later....

[pogweasel]

Is the DHC a Wolseley?And that Ford... Not a Pilot I think but a pre-prefect prefect if you see what I mean... I think they were only prefects after rehash that also gave us the sit up & beg "Pop" as we best know it. E93? E493??

[wuvvum]

What a fascinating video. I can imagine a health & safety inspector watching that and having several coronaries. Strange to think though that everyone in that video - even the excited children running in front of the camera - has long since died of old age...

[HillmanImp]

Not being very well travelled (the furthest I have ever gone is Hungary and we spent most of that in the pub next to the Hotel), I am wondering, are the roads all they wide in big American cities? Its got to be as wide as a football field.I find old bits of film like this facinating. Amazing that it was all nearly flattened shortly after. Great find.

[Tayne]

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[STUNO]

  pogweasel said:

Is the DHC a Wolseley?And that Ford... Not a Pilot I think but a pre-prefect prefect if you see what I mean... I think they were only prefects after rehash that also gave us the sit up & beg "Pop" as we best know it. E93? E493??

It's a Prefect, I had one of these, a 1939 model just like that. And somewhere I have a photo of my sisters boyfriends 1929 Essex and it is RHD.

[autofive]

London version, 1903

 

[ashmicro]

A lot of very early Yank tin was RHD, emulating where the driver sat on a horsedrawrn coach.

[Pete-M]

I'm sure Andy Saunders has a 1920's Essex somewhere.

[trigger]

What a fab video!, It's almost as if no one had any fear, or sense back then!.

 

This is the same scene today, Looks slightly different now!.