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Sat 08 Aug 2008It could drive us to think
Do we remain fully human when we get behind the wheel of a car? Author Tom Vanderbilt has some interesting theories about road rage, changing lanes and why we don't beep posh cars, writes Fiona McCann
NOT MANY PEOPLE have heard of the Irish scientist Mary Ward, but she made history when she was killed by a steam car in Ireland in 1869, thus becoming the world's first recorded fatality in an automobile accident.
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