

Peter D. Norton is an American historian, academic and author, known for a critical view of societies' relationship with the private car. Norton is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He has received prizes for teaching as well as the Abbot 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".
Biography
Peter D. Norton is an American historian, academic and author, known for a critical view of societies' relationship with the private car. Norton is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He has received prizes for teaching as well as the Abbot 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".