Zypp0 wrote:
Sen no sen: the industry is not above but below the reasonable!
If we want consideration the current global growth rate, one should have about ... 4 billion automobiles worldwide in 2040 !!!
The depletion of raw materials should we happily avoid such chaos!
Such a development in the automotive sector is a madness!
The materials are becoming scarce precisely it is time to make cars smarter, smaller engines, passenger car drive (without highway), less comfortable but still much more than walking on foot or bicycle. With cleaner cars is better.
It is indeed urgent to develop cars sober in energy as you mention.
However, given the global demographics, solution No. 1 is and will remain the proximity and the development of muscle transportation (walking cycling) and public transport.
Another point, there is no "clean car", all motorized travel corresponds to a degree of environmental levy which necessarily induces nuisance to the biosphere ....
Sen no sen, if I understand you, you explain in this topic transport need to walk? I do not understand your or improving the system?
Homo sapiens crowd the soil of this planet for over 100 000 years, the use of the automobile generalized manner only dates from 50 years ... how was it before?
Some figure concerning automotive "progress":
In France there are about 4000 death per year on the roads ...
Between 8000 and 15000 dead following air pollution problems ... just in France ...
The car is 14% of the household budget ....
It is also established that the obesity epidemic is perfectly correlated with the use of the car (which is part of the growth logic, junk food etc ...), or more than 50 000 deaths per year ....
The oil needed to run the automobile is taken from countries with whom we must maintain dubious reports (widespread corruption) to see regime change ... how many deaths in Iraq already?
The "progress" ... hum!
Nevertheless there is no question of removing the car, but the drastic reduction in industrial countries (in the order of -50%), nuance!
And in order to share its use with other inhabitants of the world.
A virtuous world would be based on proximity and promote walking, cycling etc ...
For journeys over long distance, public transport are ideal.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.