… today we take a look at some “horseless” carriages.

This video shows a 1930s-era gathering in Brighton, England, to celebrate the 1896 law that repealed the “Red Flag Laws.” These had required that all motorized vehicles be preceded on the road — for safety’s sake — by a pedestrian carrying a lantern or waving a red flag.

The video’s narrator says that the same 1896 law also raised the speed limit from a “comparatively safe two miles per hour to a reckless twelve.”

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