Would u miss your car if everyone couldnt have one?

Answer 1

I would not miss my car. When I selected my current home, I wanted to be within walking distance of shops and restaurants. My parents did not have a car and they also lived in a neighborhood where it was convenient to shop. Although I have a car, I only use it once a week, sometimes more if I see the doctor.

Answer 2

From you question, I'm assuming that what you meant by "everyone couldn't have one" was that there's no car available, and just the fact that noone has a car.

So for that question, I would say no. I wouldn't miss my car, because I believe. If there's no car around, people would try their best to find some sort of efficient public mass transportation. Which would be good for the environment. We would have a very intensive public transportation system, so that I can go anywhere pretty easily.

It might be really hard if in a snap of your finger all the cars are gone, coz it will take forever to develop all these efficient mass transportation system and technologies. So during this development period i'm sure i would miss my car a lot. But after everything is said and done. Maybe I wouldn't even remember if I used to have a car. Coz noone has one anymore.

What I'm trying to say is, that people adapt, we're not robots. If there's no car. People would find a way of delivering groceries maybe. And if there's no car, businesses that have something to do with cars would close, but they would come up with other type of businesses.

But this is just my opinion, have fun with it. Don't get too serious.

Answer 3

In reading answers, Tacosarethebest has made the telling point. Historically, citizens have lived within walking or biking distance of their homes, hence the term 'factory town'.

With the advent of the car, and the tremendous road building effort we live miles from work. Remove the cars and places of work will become the town's hub once again. Keep in mind that this change would take decades. It would be hampered by the fact that companies no longer hire people for life. Do away with cars? It would stand the world on its head!

Answer 4

Of course I would. I live in the country and drive 12.5 miles to and from work. If there were no cars I could use a bike or just walk. It probably wouldn't be too bad if the weather was good. Now if the weather is bad, temp over 90 degrees or below 40 degrees, rain, snow, high winds, that sort of thing it would be another story.

Answer 5

I would miss my car in general, like any part of nostalgia or childhood memory (like the Fisher Price bubble blower lawnmower). But I would find another way to get around. What do you think people did before the invention of the motor? This world obviously grew from something so all these people that say they couldn't or wouldn't give it up need to read a history book.

I would miss my car because it's a part of my history, but not because I'm a consumer whore.

Answer 6

Not really, although the Los Angeles public transit system would really have to be *heavily* improved if no one here owned a car.

I went without a car for almost 8 months. I used public transit whenever I could, but it says something that I still had to borrow my boyfriend's car for certain errands where the bus didn't go.

Answer 7

That's kind of a stupid question. Not everyone can afford to feed a horse, there aren't enough stables in the neighborhood, and think of the clean-up mess...pedestrian crossings alone would cost the City a fortune. That constant shoveling and scraping would drive the city dwellers mad. Think cars are smelly? Wait till you get a city full of horses and mules.

Of course, there's always roller skates and bicycles...can't carry the grocery bags home that way, though.

There would be so much unemployment... consider the businesses related to the auto. The bread lines would go on and on. Suicides would be up, too, no doubt.
Need I say more?

Answer 8

Yes, more so cos then il miss the opportunity to finaly drive without the trafic. Plus getting around wuld be so much more of a hassel. The public transport system where i live is beyond hopeless and not really safe either.

Answer 9

I'd miss my car, yes, but I would miss the fact that "everyone couldnt have one" more - that would mean our civilisation was on the point of collapse and the modern transport system that keeps us all fed, would no longer exist. Millions would die.

Answer 10

Not as long as I could still drive a fuel efficient motorcycle. I don't understand why more people don't drive motorcycles to save money on gas/prevent global warming/reduce dependence on foreign oil today. In places where mass transit doesn't exist, it is an inexpensive alternative to hybrids and still blows their gas mileage away. Our nation glorifies on the news when a 17 year old kid dies going 160 mph. That scares others because they don't want to die, but the fact is most of us would ever drive that fast. Just my 2 cents.