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There are now over 700 million motor vehicles in the
world-and the number is rising by more than 40 million each year. The average
distance driven by car users is growing too-from 8 km a day per person in
western Europe in 1965 to 25 km a day in 1995. This dependence on motor vehicles
had given rise to major problems, including environmental pollution, depletion
of oil resources, traffic congestion and safety. 2. Until a
hundred years ago, most journeys were in the 20 km range, the distance
conveniently accessible by horse. Heavy freight could only be carried by water
or rail. The invention of the motor vehicle brought personal mobility to the
masses and made rapid freight delivery possible over a much wider area. Today 90
per cent of inland freight in the United Kingdom is carried by road. Clearly the
world cannot revert to the horse-drawn wagon. Can it avoid being locked into
congested and pollution ways of transporting people and goods 3.
In Europe most cities are still designed for the old modes of transport.
Adaptation to the motor car has involved adding ring roads, one-way systems and
parking lots. In the United States, more land is assigned to car use than to
housing. Urban sprawl means that life without a car is nest to impossible. Mass
use of motor vehicles has also killed or injured millions of people. Other
social effects have been blamed on the car such as alienation and aggressive
human behaviour. 4. A 1993 study by the European Federation for
Transport and Environment found that car transport is seven times as costly as
rail travel in terms of he external social costs it entails such as congestion,
accidents, pollution, loss of cropland and natural habitats, depletion of oil
resources, and so on. Yet cars easily surpass trains or buses as a flexible and
convenient mode of personal transport. It is unrealistic to expect people to
give up private cars in favour of mass transit. 5. Technical
solutions can reduce the pollution problem and increase the fuel efficiency of
engines. But fuel consumption and exhaust emissions depend on which cars are
preferred by customers and how they are driven. Many people buy larger cars than
they need for daily purposes or waste fuel by driving aggressively. Besides,
global car use is increasing at a faster rate than the improvement in emissions
and fuel efficiency which technology is now making possible. 6.
A more likely scenario seems to be a combination of mass transit systems for
travel into and around cities. With small "low emission" cars for urban use and
larger hybrid or lean burn cars for use elsewhere. Electronically tolled
highways might be used to ensure that drivers pay charges geared to actual road
use. Better integration of transport systems is also highly desirable-and made
more feasible by modern computers. But these are solutions for countries which
can afford them. In most developing countries, old cars and old technologies
continue to predominate. Paragraph 3 ______