Q2. Why is the car a symbol of the mass produced object?
Perhaps because the car has become emblematic of the mass produced object (Urry, 1999, 2000), the root noun of Fordism, the authors assume that as society briefly manifests itself there it is a uniform unchanging unit of transportation, cryogenically suspended as it passed from A to B.
Q3. Why do the authors use the term ‘collective private transport’?
At one level, it is because the one-person-one-car mode of travelling is so immensely wasteful of resources, and thus environmentally harmful, that the authors choose to look towards those who more or less successfully manage their vehicle use collectively.
Q4. What are the different ways that the back seat cameras are used to monitor what is being said and?
Instead turns of the head, which do not go all the round to actually looking over the should, are used as visible gestures in direct response to, or as a means to monitor, what is being said and done in the back.
Q5. What is the view of the back seat cameras?
The view offered by the back seat cameras (see Figure 3, left frame) is especially instructive in this respect: when both front seats are occupied, what the child sees directly ahead is the back of the seat and a bit of a head, and, by a diagonal line of sight, an oblique facial profile.