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Funnily enough, cars have their own way of pooping and dying of a heart attack.

It’s far less frequent, is at least recoverable, and of course there’s no immediate public sanitation issue the way poop and dead horses attract flies and disease.

I thought it’s more because they go hundreds times faster than horses and don’t need rest, so you don’t need to change horses all the time on long journeys. Plus you can easily haul tons of stuff

Cars can stop working suddenly in many many ways, for many reasons.

But at far less frequency and severity than a temperamental horse.

In Manhattan in 1900, 400 horses would die a day, and a rotting horse carcass is a far bigger sanitation problem than a broken down car, which you can tow and fix up.