Can you imagine your life without a car? The aim of this question is to make you wonder about how much you rely on automobiles. I do not mean by saying car your private car, but I mean the whole system of automobiles. Of course, not all people have their private cars, for now all people are working towards getting a car because we need cars when we go to work or when we go to shopping or even when you hang out with your children. Thus, we can say that we take automobiles for granted; we cannot imagine our lives without them. Unfortunately, we think that cars facilitate our life, but they are ruining our social, environmental and individual life without noticing it. Because we deal with cars as an immortal mean of transportations, …show more content…
As statistics showed that number of traffic deaths and injuries increase in the last few years (Huesemann, "Techno- Fix"). In fact, some statistics said that between 40,000 and 55,000 have been killed in traffic accident per year in The United States, and there are around 3,200,000 injuries (Huesemann, "Techno- Fix"). Since automobiles were introduced a century ago, they have killed more than 30 million people, and these numbers of deaths are more than numbers of deaths after The World War I and World War II (Huesemann, "Techno- Fix"). Furthermore, automobiles directly affect our health as users; carbon monoxide that cars release decreases the ability of our blood to carry oxygen; also, volatile organic compounds are one of the vehicles emissions which are considered as a toxic matter that may cause …show more content…
Prior to the invention of automobiles, people used to stay where they were born; in other words, people who were born in cities used to work and live in cities and the same for those who were born in country sides ("Automobile"). Also, they were being part of removing barriers between cultures and countries. Therefore, without automobiles, travelling would not be easy as we know these days. Before automobiles, they used to take days to move between countries, but after cars travelling became much easier and people were able to communicate with each other in a more effective way (Automobile). Controversy, nowadays, as the number of cars increases, they cause traffic congestion and this happened because few of street systems were designed for automobile traffic. Therefore, shrinking and saving time is not one of the benefits of automobiles anymore (Urry, "The "System" of
Driving emits particle pollution, which increases the risk of heart disease, lung cancer and asthma. Particle pollution is processed in two ways, either mechanical or chemical.
Have you ever thought of what the world would be like without the automobile? This paper will talk about the things the automobile has helped create. Inventors first started experimenting with steam powered engines in the late 18th century. Cars began being produced and sold to the public in the 1890’s (Automotive History). The automobile is considered to be one of the greatest inventions of all time. As a result of the automobile, cities changed, jobs were formed, and the environment was impacted.
In the July 1997 issue of Commentary, James Q. Wilson challenges the consensus among academia’s finest regarding the automobile in his bold article, Cars and Their Enemies. Directed towards the general public, his article discredits many of the supposed negatives of the automobile raised by experts, proves that the personal car is thriving and will continue to thrive because it meets individual preference over other means of transportation, as well as presents solutions to the social costs of cars. Wilson emphasizes that no matter what is said and done in eliminating the social costs of the automobile, experts are not going to stop campaigning against it.
Automobiles play a major role in today's society. Almost every American owns at least one motorized transportation vehicle. Some say they make our lives better by reaching places faster than before. Others say they are a harmful to the environment. Have they made our society better or worse? They may be fast, but do we as humans want our environment to suffer because of time. Face it, cars pollute. And they release destructive chemicals into the air. Air pollution can threaten the health of many subjects in the environment including human beings.
Being a member of the future generation of innovators and leaders, I feel that this research combined with my fascination of automobiles could lead to a clearer understanding of how I can help improve the automobile. In a world that is highly connected by roads, if the problem of using petroleum-based fuels is not solved, the entire gas-guzzling world could come to a standstill. This apocalyptic halt would cease all travel and we would be thrown back to a more primitive standing. However, if we research and find an alternative ahead of time, we would be able to transiti...
The invention of the automobile in the early 20th century has had an adverse affect on our environment. Our society has used technology in order to advance the automobile to make it better and more efficient. The automobile industry knows what sells and they take advantage of that. With this growing technology to advance automobiles also comes flaws. The biggest and most obvious flaw is pollution. Because of pollution, we find ourselves asking the question of whether this technology has helped our society more than it has hurt it.
Automobiles play an essential role in American society. As if being the major means of transportation was not impressive enough, automotives can be seen on T.V., in movies, in magazines, and can sometimes be indicative of a person’s wealth and social status. On average, Americans drive nearly 40 miles and drive for just over 50 minutes driving per person per day (http://www.bts.gov). That means a person spends roughly one-sixteenth of a day driving. It would make sense, then, to make such an essential part of society as efficient, cost effective, and clean as possible. However, that is not the case. As the years have passed cars have actually begun to move away from efficiency. Hawken writes, “[The automobile] design process has made cars ever heavier, more complex, and usually costlier. These are all unmistakable signs that automaking has beco...
Gasoline fueled cars produce a number of pollutants. The most damaging pollutants that come from gasoline fueled cars are particulate matter. Particulate matter is a sequence of organic materials and inorganic substances. It includes ingredients such as lint and minerals. Nitrogen dioxide, produced when fuel is burned at high temperatures, can cause damage to the lungs and cause chest pains. One might ask, “Why are Americans still driving gasoline cars?” knowing the damage that they are subject to cause. I personally maintain that the government should push people to p...
1. Why are cars a bad investment? A car is a bad investment because how much you’re paying and because the money you’re putting down on the car just to drive it off the lot, if you’re buying a used one it could be something wrong with it and then you try to take it back to the car place where you got it from and they’ll only give you half of what you put down on the car.
In the current age of human urbanization, humanity has oversaturated, deforested, and left an immense carbon footprint on the Earth. To combat the devastated environmental state the word is in, many people have started to be conscientious of natural resource usage. Specifically, citizens across the globe have limited car usage for economic, environmental, and convenience purposes, which gives a role and example for humanity and citizens alike to follow. Overall, individuals have become aware of the economic solutions reduced car driving provides. People see that the cost for having cars in general can become burdensome in some areas, so not owning a car can free those burdens.
Today, people use their own personal vehicles to travel more than ever before. Personal transportation is no longer considered a luxury; it is now considered a necessity. The number of cars in the United States has been growing steadily since the 1970s. The number of miles traveled by cars has risen nearly 150 percent, yet the United States population has only grown roughly 40 percent during that time (hybridcars.com, Driving Trends). Although it may seem like we are advancing into the future, in reality, we are moving backwards from the effects these vehicles have on our bodies and the environment. The pollution produced by these vehicles has brought us to the day where we must find other modes of transportation that cause less harm to the world in which we live. Advances in technology have developed hybrid vehicles to try and slow down the amount of pollution. Driving a hybrid vehicle, instead of a conventional gas powered vehicle, can reduce the amount of pollution that affects our lives and the environment around us.
Cars have evolved from being animals people ride on to automobiles people ride in. For example, the use of transportation was the use of donkeys and horses from the Middle Ages all the way to the 18th century; people loved the idea of wagons and horses because it was the easiest way to get from place to place (5). The first car to ever be made was invented by Karl Benz in 1886 and it had three wheels; Benz also built the first successful gasoline powered vehicle to ever be seen but it was very expensive (9). As the idea of cars came about, people thought it was ten times better than using wagons and horses; the car was the quicker and easier way for people to travel around. Furthermore, the first affordable car to be invented was made by Henry Ford in 1903, and it was a four-wheeler that was also a gasoline powered car; it was called the Model T, and it was very unsafe because it didn't have anything to protect the driver (10). As cars kept improving over the years, inventors and scientists found new ways to keep people safe in their cars; the seatbelt was then invented by Nils Bohlin and it was first introduced by Volvo in 1959 (1). Since more people were buying cars, inventors and scientists wanted to make it a safer experience, so they came up with a way for people to not fly out of their cars; this surely kept the accident rate down. In less than two hundred years, transportation went from animals to vehicles; scientists have made cars safer, easier, ...
Car pollutants cause immediate and long-term effects on the environment. Car exhausts emit a wide range of gases and solid matter, causing global warming, acid rain, and harming the environment and human health. Engine noise and fuel spills also cause pollution. Cars, trucks and other forms of transportation are the single largest contributor to air pollution in the United States, but car owners can reduce their vehicle's effects on the environment. Car pollution is one of the major causes of global warming. Cars and trucks emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which contribute one-fifth of the United States' total global warming pollution. Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, which causes worldwide temperatures to rise.
On the contrary, using private car is the same convenience of travelling as public transport. When people are in a hurry, they can suddenly go ev...
These difficulties affect many aspects of a person, from their lives at home and work, as well as their mental and physical health. Given the severity of the issue, it can even be fatal to the people on the roads. The contant emissions from cars are considered harmful to the environment, especially carbon monoxide, which is constantly emitted from cars. Having cars constantly stop and go during traffic congestions cause more carbon monoxide to be released into the atmosphere. This causes many troubles for people's health as well as the ozone layer.