Life — February 1934 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Life Magazine Cover - February, Early 1920s This is a **Life magazine cover** satirizing dangerous driving habits. The illustration shows a car full of passengers—a woman driver and what appears to be a family—passing dangerously close to other vehicles on the road. The driver's quote states: "Whenever I drive through a close place like this, I just close my eyes and trust to luck." The satire mocks reckless motorists of the era, particularly highlighting how some drivers—possibly women drivers, a newer phenomenon—operated vehicles with alarming disregard for safety. The cartoon critiques both the dangerous behavior and the fatalistic attitude ("trust to luck") that characterized some early automobile users. This reflects 1920s concerns about traffic safety as car ownership rapidly expanded.