On: Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)

[actionfromafar]

Streamlined isn’t a concern below 30 mph or so.

[theodric → actionfromafar]

And 30mph is fine if you're not going very far, but that's not what people wanted, and their wants dictated what technology succeeded at the time. Even a Model T could do about 50 MPH, not that you'd want to, and not that you'd be able to stop in time if anything bad happened, but it did it and delivered 20 MPG in the 1910s.