If the error is grandiose enough, it may not even be comprehended as an error, even when brought to attention. •Thus, the loss of 50,000 American lives per year in auto accidents is seen, not as a mortal flaw in our Transportation System, but merely as a fact of life.[c. ] [lxix] •The dismantling of the American street railway system and its replacement by privately owned automobiles, at a thousand-fold increase in traffic density and energy consumption, has hardly been noticed. Some, indeed, have even called it Progress
