The problem of the locomotion

The problem of the locomotion by automobile vehicles seemed to be definitively in the way of being solved when the inventors and promoters of these machines found the opposition that appears almost always when new and radical improvements arises. The owners of the roads and the people who used these roads such as coachmen, farmers, proprietors of cars and diligences, all were united in strong opposition against the new vehicles. They said that these were excessively dangerous, that scared the cavalries; others, that spoiled the roads. The interested parts in the services of diligences and related services were opposed, of course, because if the new vehicles were successful, their businesses would go to ruin. One of the engineers in charge to make work these new steam cars wrote: "we are surrounded by harmed people: agriculturists, proprietors of diligences, coachmen , foremen, and others, direct or indirectly related to them, and all of them, helped by the old ladies of Cheltenham, I assure you that they offer a formidable opposition to all innovation ".