ONE-CAR RULE // AN OVERREACH!
I put my teeth together and clenched them tightly shut when I saw this question. And then I began to laugh. You know, the question is sort of multi-directiomal. It's possible that the one car rule could stand, and at the same time, it stands highly disadvantageous. In a populated, mobile society as ours, it would only make some other areas and even people suffer.
Like, when I thought about my sister who lives abroad and says she and her husband may be getting just one car soon and says it's okay for them.since she goes to school in the day, while he goes to work when she gets back from school, I saw possibilities with the rule.
Now, looking at my household where there's more than six of us, I don't see the possibility of that. Maybe in a household where both parents work around the same location or have shifts that don't clash so much that it doesn't disrupt theirs or their kids(who, in this context, are not up to legal driving ages)...yes, it works.
I'm super curious as to the reason for asking this and whatever reasoning might be presented in support of such a thing.
Vehicles are made in order that they ease movement and support fast transport of people and things from place to place.
Vehicles make transportation easier and faster. And really, I do understand the whole ozone layer depletion thing that greatly affects our environment. Air pollution is on the rise. I remember traveling down from Enugu to Port Harcourt and feeling like I was struggling to breathe. The city is known to have many industries, and the negative effects of the waste from there constitute soot and deplete oxygen levels in the almost almostphere. So, I do understand.
But that aside, I also thought that vehicles that are in bad conditions yet travel the roads, releasing fumes also play a part with the whole depletion thing. If families are made to own one car only, I assume that the number of vehicles on the road will reduce, and that might be beneficial to the environment. However, we still need to think about the fact that each family-car would have to do much more work and be over-used and begin to wear quickly that it emits darker, more harmful fumes that still deplete the ozone layer.
And so, i say no... that is definitely an overreach. Besides, how would you think that only one car for several folks with jobs and chores would save anything? You would simply have to drive twice(for more) as much, and you would use the same amount of gas, emit the same amount of
exhaust and double the wear and tear on one car instead of two or three.
A totally useless effort.
How about, instead of the one-family-car rule, old, worn cars are taken off the road. And then, industries that release waste to the atmostphere should be looked into and not sited in residential areas but very far away? These might help rather than imposing the rule that would make life even more difficult for humans and may cause rift among members of a family. How about that?
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Mmmmm. I think hink you have a point here , but still there would still be traffic with the plenty cars on the road .
We've been dealing with it, haven't we? A couple regulations here-and-there plus good traffic light systems, and things will go well.
Some good points you have talked about. One car per family isn't actually that necessary. In most countries there is ample amount of road to afford multiple cars per family. The number won't get higher anyway because affording more than one car isn't easy itself. Removing old cars and regulating public transport and moving towards electric and hydrogen cars are the way forward.
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