Baruch Menache — Author and Philosopher

  The rules of the road, by which most will be tempted to illegalize the situation in order to maintain at least this limitation, insofar as it is within their power, and over which traffic and policing are overarching and persistent. However, the illegalization of the rules will be arbitrary in the matter of analysis, since certain rules will always be maintained. The usage of roads, for instance, instead of sidewalks, private property, open fields. Another would be the lanes, the direction in which to drive, signage, traffic symbols, which will all prove to be fatal with slight deviation. The fatality factor marks the strongest argument of its limitations, as it constantly is ideated in most motor decisions, so that in the activity of the limitless state, they are always in interaction with what is dangerous, with the fact of their mortality in any given scenario. The decision making during the usage of a motor vehicle proves contrary to the persona that is ascribed to the vehi...

  This case study explores the philosophical implications of the motor vehicle as a key representative of a “gateway locale.” A gateway locale, in this context, refers to a space that facilitates transition and access, both spatial and existential, allowing for movement across boundaries that are typically imposed by geography, society, and systems of power. Arriving for the sole expression of this constitution, it made headway in its own territory, which had compelled the global front to follow its tracks. The spatial distance between differing points is most effective in portraying the capability and ability to transgress those limitations, through a power device which can carry an individual to any point, at any moment, in whatever capacity. The unexplored junctions, that is, the presumed areas of inability, the off-limits by being of a different character and disposition, are granted access within the motor vehicle’s jurisdiction. With an individual and their motor vehicle,...