Epilogue

The history of cars, policing, and the Fourth Amendment describes a past that is becoming increasingly foreign in the twenty-first century. Journalists and policymakers have already announced the decline of the car’s central role in American life as younger generations prefer urban lifestyles and Uberization. Concerns about the arbitrary policing of Everyman sound out of touch with a racialized War on Drugs, Driving While Black, and Black Lives Matter. Public discussion is now focused on discriminatory policing.¹ Although the concerns of the past may seem distant today, we are still grappling with the fallout from developments that occurred in the