In my considered opinion, cars and driving are..er.. absolute rubbish.
The motor car in its current form is over 100 years old.
The petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine was developed by Daimler and Benz in Germany in around 1885.
Hence "Vorsprung Durch Technik" etc. Hence "Volkswagen". Hence "Autobahn"......etc.
There are NOW so many other possibilities. Monorails for example......
And also - more importantly - the petrol-driven chariot car dominates our global society as a means of transport and in so many other ways..... And in a way that now threatens our globe........
Like bicycles - another German invention - cars are a great invention but only if used appropriately.
At the moment they are well on the way to destroying the Earth and Humanity.
Even if they invented clean fuel technology for cars, they're still a stupid way for everyone to get around.
What is free about a whole civilisation that is entirely moulded around the use of cars?
You may say that one can't uninvent the car and things are just the way they are.
Well, as expressed in the title of a very good book by David Icke (written when he was a Green activist and before he went well, before he went a bit.. er...different) IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS.
That's an important point about things now - things do not necessarily have to be the way they are.
In the case of the car, the society and the economy is built on the principle of mass private car ownership and it doesn't really have to be.
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Good to see Carbusters and other groups still exist
http://www.carbusters.org/
Car adverts do my head in!
Firstly assuming that you might part with thousands just on the strength of a thirty second ad.!
How weird is that!
Oh that looks fun and frivolous, I'll spend a few grand on that!
I'll buy a poison-emitting lump of metal.
Secondly the staggering assumption of stupidity that these adverts make.
They show cars driving through jungles, across hills and mountains, no traffic in sight.
What planet is that set on then?
It's traffic jams wherever there are cars most of the time.
Cars are far worse than smoking and are up there with warfare for sheer stupidity and evil.
In fact someone once told me that vehicles have killed many millions and continue to mame and kill millions.
Also cars are a very big carbon-emitter.
I WILL BE MODERATE AND SAY:
THERE IS PLENTY OF SCOPE FOR USING CARS A LOT LESS.
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For a wonderful attack on cars see this extract from "Autogeddon"
by Heathcote Williams:
http://cfu.freehostia.com/Members/colin/autogeddon/