“If you look at newspapers from American cities in the 1910s
    and ’20s, you’ll find a lot of anger at cars and drivers, 
    really an incredible amount,” says Peter Norton, the author 
    of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the 
    American City. “My impression is that you’d find more 
    caricatures of the Grim Reaper driving a car over innocent 
    children than you would images of Uncle Sam.”

Same thing happened with the horseless carriage when it first showed up. Didn't stop it.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/murder-machines/