<P> Commercial horse and buggy rides mainly for tourists are conducted in in several places, for example in New York City's central park area, in Vienna, Brussels and other European and North American sites . </P> <P> Today, the term "horse and buggy" is often used in reference to the era before the advent of the automobile and other socially revolutionizing major inventions . By extension, it has come to mean clinging to outworn attitudes or ideas, and hopelessly outmoded, old - fashioned, non-modern, or obsolete . </P> <Ul> <Li> Stephen Scott: Plain Buggies: Amish, Mennonite, And Brethren Horse - Drawn Transportation, Intercourse, PA 1998 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Stephen Scott: Plain Buggies: Amish, Mennonite, And Brethren Horse - Drawn Transportation, Intercourse, PA 1998 . </Li>

When did the horse and buggy era end