i wasn't implying that so much as for the money you're not going to get the same efficency that, europeans especially, are now accustomed to in their cars.
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
How about the Smart cars? Everyone used to say they wouldn't be up to the safety requirements and yet they were strong and safe.
Safety is not a question size, like US seem to believe.
Maybe higher but they crash slower and the cars are lighter.
Indeed. And even on small and narrow european cities like Porto, a car like the Nano makes perfect sense. I wouldn't mind being seen driving something that sensible.
They are spoiled. They are from an era where a car without power-steering is rare.
I'd like to see them driving a Renault 18 with large tires and no PS. It was worse than a truck!
Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.
Good on em, but still, theres plenty of desert in india isnt there? Tap some oil before the states embargos you or worse comes and gets it!!!
I wouldnt have one, ever, simply for safety reasons but its a huge leap ahead of whats available at the moment.
The Datto will rage again...
I think this vehicle is still safer than travelling in a Hindustan Ambassador.
and it's at least characterful.
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Good read from a great writer:
TheSpec.com - Opinions - Tata Nano and Western hypocrisy
It's pretty short too for you lazy ones...
* These late-nite musings are perilously Orwellian and it kinda creeps me out too but what the hell I'll post it anyway and cop the flack
To expand on reaction to the Tata Nano, which broadened into the above proposed rationing and equalization of per capita emissions:Originally Posted by thespec.com
There is of course another dimension to the environmental debate, which is overpopulation, of which the world is vastly over-encumbered.
The world's population has and still is inexorably growing, far beyond sustainability. To quote 'I have seen the enemy, and he is us'
Curbs, restrictions and behaviour modification (social engineering) usually involve a tax. In relation to pollution, many countries already have a carbon tax scheme underway which is set to widen in both spread and significance. I'm guessing it will be measured and meted on a combination of both collective and individual consumption. As to the individual component, how personal should this be?
Does a person's obligations, both ethical and fiscal, towards a healthy planet stop at him/her assuming personal responsibility for their own individual consumption and pollution? Or in equity should this personal onus of liability extend further, not just of themselves, but to encompass certain other aspects of life choices. By this I mean to specifically include and incorporate the inevitable environmental impact of whatever number of offspring a person chooses to produce. Perhaps factoring in the almost inevitable grandchildren ad infinitum.
There is no escaping the fact that ever more people means more environmental destruction. So what I'm getting at is, should a person's decision to procreate (or to remain childless) affect their 'allowable quota to emit' in entitlements and taxable obligations thereof?
In the reality of today and our near tomorrow it seems to me that someone can comport themselves in as environmentally neutral fashion as could feasibly be, but if these noble actions also include imposing an ongoing tribe of yet more random 'future eaters' onto the planet they will in net terms still burden our (overly) shared Earth way beyond what a childless profligate ever possibly could
if I remember correctly, the "one child per family" policy of the Chinese was not met with great appreciation in the Western World. Suppose it had not taken place, imagine what energy demand growth we would have to witness on top of what is going on already.
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