Peter Norton (historian)

Peter D Norton, often just Peter Norton, is a U.S. historian, academic and author. He holds a position as associate professor at the University of Virginia. He has received prizes for teaching as well as the Abbott Payson Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology for “the best scholarly work published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society for the History of Technology.”[1]

Amongst his most cited writings are:[2]

  • Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city (2011)
  • Street rivals: Jaywalking and the invention of the motor age street (2007)

In 2021 he published the book, Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.[3]

References
  1. "Peter Norton, Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track Science, Technology, and Society". University of Virginia. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  2. "Peter Norton". Google scholar. Google. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. Zipper, David. "The Dangerous Promise of the Self-Driving Car". Citylab. Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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