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Vehicles are embedded in, and constituted by, historically specific sets of technologies, code-structures, materials, and bodily capacities, ensconced in a normalizing mode of transport. The vehicle attempts to generate and register a fit between societal conditions and the conditions of the occupant: it helps to "optimize" routines and forms according to social and economic demands, often in the name of progress, fitness, self-improvement, and adequacy. The vehicle is an engine of optimization. It transports that which matters. One inhabits it in order to matter.