Unmotivated aggression of mechanisms and unprovoked attacks by household appliances on people are usually presented as a result of a safety violation or careless handling of the machines of their owners. The "yellow press" usually writes about "self-starting" machines, "self-starting" cars, "walking" excavators and "self-sawing" circular saws …
Shot from the horror film "Car" (1977)
People who are "serious" and rational consider all this to be nonsense. And in vain. It is possible that in the foreseeable future humanity will not face a more serious problem than this. Only a few people warn the world about danger, but no one wants to listen to them. As has happened more than once in history.
Man is used to oversimplification. It is convenient for him to cut off all unnecessary details with "Occam's razor" and consider the simplest and most convenient solution to any problem to be correct …
Air conditioners-poisoners, TV-bombs, vacuum cleaners-stranglers, killer cars do not curse their owners, but simply kill. And they do it the more “willingly”, the more a person is dependent on them. Professor Craneworth was one of the first to describe the phenomenon of the psychic connection between a person and a car. The psychologist called it "the autotavr complex" - the fruit of a kind of automobile pygmalionophilia!
Let us note in parentheses that what is new in Craneworth's idea is only a car, more precisely, there is a rethinking of the phenomenon of the posthumous connection of a person with the phenomena of inanimate nature, known to the ancient Celtic priests-druids. The priests insisted that a man-made product, device or mechanism in the hands of a person who is at his last gasp, and indicates his path in the afterlife.
Roughly speaking, if the last object that was held by the hand of a man who was drunk with beer to death was a beer mug, then his soul has a path straight to the nearest hop plantation!
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It is difficult to say which "automobile fields" the souls of those killed by their own vehicles move to, but the fact remains: more than a third of road accidents with grave consequences defy rational explanation.
At the wheel of his own Porsche, the idol of American teenagers, film actor James Byron Dean (1931-1955), who made the fastest and shortest starring career in Hollywood, died. Dean became the epitome of American youth in the 1950s, starring in Rebel Without a Cause.
The death of the twenty-four-year-old actor in a car accident shocked American teenagers and led to a repetition of the "cult of Valentino" - the "silent" movie star Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), whose premature death led to a series of suicides of fans and female fans of the movie stars around the world ….
The mysterious circumstances of the death of James Dean gave rise to a lot of speculation and various versions of his death. Then the American media even started talking about the fact that the culprit of the accident is clearly considered … "little bastard" Porsche."
The nickname "Little Bastard" was invented for his car by James Dean himself. On September 30, 1955, on the way to Salinas, where Dean was going to participate in auto racing, his car suddenly turned around and at a speed of over 100 km / h crashed into an oncoming Cadillac.
The California Traffic Police's verdict was unambiguous: no driver could physically make such a U-turn. Dean himself couldn't turn the steering wheel of his Porsche like that. However, no other evidence proving the fact of the premeditated murder of the actor, more precisely, who or what did it for the actor, was not found at the crime scene, so the case of the "little bastard" was closed …
"The killer's handwriting" - a sharp, almost "police" U-turn with an exit into the oncoming lane - was also traced in another accident that happened shortly after the tragic death of James Dean. The young Italian actress Pier Angeli, Dean's ex-girlfriend, who gave him a turn from the gate and married a little-known film actor Vic Damone, had an accident at almost the same place where her ex-fiance died a few months ago.
The Italian got off with a slight fright and lived after the accident for some more, probably happy years, because she was destined to die only in 1971 from a drug overdose …
In both Dean's and Angeli's case, traffic police forensics found strangely deformed electric drives in the engines of twisted cars - bends of wires separated by characteristic grooves, folding into something that vaguely resembles a cerebral cortex …
In 1964, the "killer's trail" - a pseudo-convolution of the brain made of wires - was found in the disfigured "jaguar" of Tara Brown - a relative of beer tycoon Miller and girlfriend of John Lennon. One of the most memorable Beatles' compositions - "A Day In The Life" - became a kind of requiem for Tara and the cocker spaniel, who died with her in an accident.
In the last eight seconds of the song, a female screech recorded at ultra-high frequencies is superimposed on the twenty-four-bar "noise curtain" performed by the Glasgow Symphony Orchestra. Sounds of this frequency are heard only by animals, therefore, when playing "A Day In The Life" on high-quality equipment, dogs begin to worry and howl desperately, as if paying tribute to the memory of their unknown dead brother …
The "ill will" accumulated in tons of moving iron killed the American top model Jane Mansfield, whose Land Rover stalled on a mountainous section of the highway near the town of Colorado Springs. The driver went out to see what happened to the engine, when suddenly the car started by itself, rushed forward and, crushing obstacles, fell into the abyss.
In 1982, 20 years after the death of the "fashion princess", another princess died - already a real one …
Grace Patricia Kelly (stage names Grace Grimaldi, Princess Grace, Princess Grace of Monaco) was born on November 12, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is considered one of the most beautiful women of all time.
On September 14, 1982, Grace Kelly, an active philanthropist, drove out to the opening of a new hospital in La Candamina in her beloved blue Mercedes. Grace's chauffeur and bodyguard, Giuseppe Tormio, was in the hospital at that time with an attack of sciatica.
Kelly got behind the wheel, putting her youngest daughter Stephanie in the back seat. On one of the most dangerous sections of the route, known here as the "roller coaster", the Mercedes numbered "Monaco-02" lost control for still unknown reasons and fell into the abyss. Grace Kelly received grave injuries and died in the hospital, and her sixteen-year-old daughter only miraculously survived …
American film star Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco is buried in the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Monte Carlo. According to the ancient custom of the Grimaldi house, there are no titles on her tombstone, but only the inscription "uxor principis" - "the prince's wife" …
The list of celebrities killed by their own cars is endless and still incomplete.
Cars killed the famous French writer, Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus, NBA star Drazen Petrovich, the wife of Sergei Yesenin, dancer Isadora Duncan, the last hero of the golden era of Russian rock Viktor Tsoi, actor Yevgeny Urbansky during the filming of the film "Director" in the Kazakh steppe, the princess probably the most talked about person of the past century …
Probably, historians of the future will find the answer why the First World War began, or, more precisely, they will find out why the car of Archduke Ferdinand suddenly stalled in front of the Moritz Schiller Delicatessen grocery store and at the very moment when the terrorist Gavrilo Princip was leaving it …
So far, one thing is clear: cars have learned to kill and are doing it with ever greater pleasure …