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automobiles  

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  • Automobiles are wheeled and powered vehicles of various designs that have become hugely popular around the world for personal transportation, leisure, and status. Huge numbers of automobiles have been produced in the century since their first appearance, and they have had enormous effects on urban and suburban lifestyles, distribution of goods and services, the demand for oil and the global political system, and also on the environment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Automobiles]

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