Comment The average speed of a vehicle (Score 1) 775
is far lower than your maximum speed. And if all you're doing is driving around town, try learning to ride a bike.
There's far more "pollution" per se from a vehicle than just the gases that come out of it!
Sure, there are some good uses for cars or road transport, but whilst we rely on them for so much of life movement, I don't care if they run on magic, they're still not the answer. I drive my car to get the shopping or to go and visit family. But public transport and walking or riding a bike take me everywhere else.
Have a look next time you're in a traffic jam, going nowhere fast. Have a look in your own car and those of the cars around you. See how many of those cars have 1 person in them, coming from the same source and heading to roughly the same destination. Want to halve your dependence on foreign oil? Want to reduce your greenhouse gases by 40%? Want to reduce your driving to work expenses by 30%? Try carpooling: pick up one person that lives nearby and works in the same town, and drive to them work too.
There's far more "pollution" per se from a vehicle than just the gases that come out of it!
- Where are you going to park it?
- How many other vehicles, lightpoles, houses, pedestrians, or cyclists are you going to hit, injure or kill with your car?
- How many times are you going to sound your horn because someone's in the way or not driving how you want?
- How much aggro is going to be caused, how much road rage transferred from person to person like some sort of emotional plague?
- How much more of the earth is going to be covered in unbreathing, planet killing concrete, tar and bitumen, just so we can add one more lane to a highway in the hopes of "reducing traffic congestion"?
Sure, there are some good uses for cars or road transport, but whilst we rely on them for so much of life movement, I don't care if they run on magic, they're still not the answer. I drive my car to get the shopping or to go and visit family. But public transport and walking or riding a bike take me everywhere else.
Have a look next time you're in a traffic jam, going nowhere fast. Have a look in your own car and those of the cars around you. See how many of those cars have 1 person in them, coming from the same source and heading to roughly the same destination. Want to halve your dependence on foreign oil? Want to reduce your greenhouse gases by 40%? Want to reduce your driving to work expenses by 30%? Try carpooling: pick up one person that lives nearby and works in the same town, and drive to them work too.
