Were they taken out and shot? Or, were their needs addressed by others?
What did a mother with two sick children do?
Can anyone live today without their very own automobile?
Seriously, why do we think cars are so vitally important to life? In the US, we have almost a 1:1 ratio of cars to people. How do the Indians survive with so few cars? (At the time of this analysis, India had a ratio of 56.3 people to every car.)
http://wardsauto.com/ar/world_vehicle_population_110815
[font face=Serif][font size=5]World Vehicle Population Tops 1 Billion Units[/font]
Aug 15, 2011 John Sousanis | WardsAuto
[font size=4]Analysis[/font]
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Vehicles in operation in 2010 equated roughly to a ratio of 1:6.75 vehicles to people among a world population of 6.9 billion, compared with 1:6.63 in 2009. But the distribution was not equal, even among the biggest markets.
In the U.S., the ratio was 1:1.3 among a population of almost 310 million – the highest vehicle-to-person ratio in the world. Italy was second with 1:1.45. France, Japan, and the U.K. followed, all of which fell in the 1:1.7 range.
In China, the ratio was 1:17.2 among the country’s more than 1.3 billion people. India, the world’s second most-populous nation with 1.17 billion people, saw a ratio of 1:56.3.
The world vehicle population in 2010 passed the 1 billion-unit mark 24 years after reaching 500 million in 1986. Prior to that, the vehicle population doubled roughly every 10 years from 1950 to 1970, when it first reached the 250 million-unit threshold.[/font][/font]
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/cambodia/30486/Publications/everyone_in_america_own_a_car.pdf[font face=Serif][font size=5]Does Everyone in America Own a Car?[/font]
[font size=4]Car-sharing Offers Convenience, Saves Money and Helps the Environment[/font]
BY ROBIN CHASE
[font size=3]It is true that 95 percent of American households own a car, and most Americans get to work by car (85 percent). It wasn’t always this way, nor is it likely to stay this way.
Until World War II and into the late 1940s, many Americans did not own cars. People lived in cities and towns, and 40 percent did not own cars but used public buses, trolleys and trains. Soon after the war, a surge in low-cost, mass-produced houses occurred outside cities to accommodate returning soldiers and their growing families.
The new housing pattern was accompanied by the National Interstate Highway System, which was started in 1956. During the next 50 years, 46,876 miles (75,440 kilometers) of highways were built across America. Americans could live in affordable suburbs in houses built on cheap land, and they could get to distant jobs with cars.
As a result, only 5 percent of Americans use public transportation to get to their jobs today, but this pattern is changing.
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