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kontextmaschine:

Just realized the reason why mansion driveways end in those weird little loops is because horse-drawn carriages didn’t have a reverse gear

My dad briefly lived in a mansion with a weird driveway loop, which was built in the 1990s.

Skeuomorphism?

Yes, exactly, that’s the angle that I’m getting at, I’m particularly thinking of all the Long Island, Westchester/Connecticut, and LA mansions that owe their existence to the automobile