WHAT YEAR did the MAJORITY of Americans go from commuting by “Horse and Buggy” to commuting by Automobiles?
Automobiles began developing deferent models between 1913 – 1919 to suit peoples needs sizing and seating. However, the full mass production cycle of vehicles didnt take effect until between 1920s. So I would categorize between that time period is when horses and buggies started to phase out of the picture. Does that mean they were gone. No, not everyone could still afford a vehicle and were still using them at that time but not to a full extent. I would say by late 1920 – 1930 we were fully commited to using automobiles as a standard. There is no real defined year as to when it was replaced. “between 1900 and 1910 automobile manufacturing leaped from one hundred and fiftieth to twenty-first in value of product among American industries and became more important to the national economy than the wagon and carriage industry by all measurable economic criteria.
It’s hard to nail down a specific year but if i had to I would say 1908, because I believe that’s the year that Henry Ford started to mass produce the Model T for the average working man. That’s when you started to see a paradigm shift from horse and buggy to automobiles. Just like 2002 when DVD’s outsold videocassettes for the first time.
