motordom

Noun

motordom (uncountable)

1. The realm or sphere of motor cars; motoring generally (including motorcycling).
   • Near-synonyms: automobilery, automobilism, automobility
   • All Chichester appeared to be assembled at the Cross, and we were accorded a most hearty welcome. Mr. S. F. Edge on his Coventry Motette and Mr. Jarrott and two friends on De Dion and New Beeston motor tricycles also participated in the general accession of motordom to the town.1898 April 16, “The Easter Tour of the Automobile Club: Log of the "Cranford" Waggonette”, in The Autocar, volume III, number 129, page 251

   Synonyms:

   automobilery, automobilism, automobility

2. All those with motoring interests (such as automotive manufacturers, car dealers, car clubs, motorists, and enthusiasts) allied collectively as an advocacy group.
   • In the traffic safety institutions that motordom founded, new experts promoted new ways to fight accidents. Chapter 8 recounts how motordom worked to reconstruct street casualties so they would no longer be the sole responsibility of motorists. Instead, accidents could be a failure of pedestrians...2011, Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 174
   • In cities large and small, urban mobility above all meant streetcars and walking. Reconstruction coincided with industry's efforts to change the norms of street use, laws, and engineering standards so that cities would welcome automobiles. In response, diverse automotive interest groups, including...2020, Peter D. Norton, chapter 2, in Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, Ruth Oldenziel, editors, A U-Turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility Since 1850, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 68