Social Responsibility Of Drivers

Cars release approximately 333 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, which is 20 percent of the world's total.
When we wake up in the morning, we are in a hurry for work, school, an event or a meeting. We need transportation to make our lives easier. Since the 20th century, the role of the car has become highly important. It has led to changes in employment patterns, social interactions, infrastructure and the distribution of goods. The introduction of the mass-produced car represented a revolution in mobility and convenience. Most of us know that using public transport, bicycles and other such alternatives is better for the society and environment and can even offer a cheaper and quicker route. But in reality, the number …show more content…
While it is easy to say that drivers have a personal moral responsibility to not harm others, this ignores wider issues. Do drivers adequately understand that their driving choices pose an unreasonable threat to others? If not, why not? Have drivers been misinformed? If so, by whom, and for what purposes? While the individual driver is the final agent, other institutions contribute hugely to how individual drivers behave, and accordingly bear a major moral responsibility for environmental …show more content…
Government’s failure to protect the public should therefore be judged by a higher standard than the one applied to industry. Government has a major responsibility for everything relating to pollution, including designing and building roads, enacting and enforcing traffic law, taxing fuel, regulating vehicles, and licensing drivers. Strict federal and state policies might help. Vehicle emission standards have helped cut pollution from cars and trucks by about 90 percent since 1998. But, along with pollution, increasing number of cars contribute to increasing traffic jams and space congestion. The need for parking space is ever increasing while the landscape for walking and cycling has reduced. Cars use non-renewable resources of fuel which are already depleting. Further challenges include noise pollution, accidental costs, urbanization, recycling costs and associated pollution. As the pollution increases, health problems increase and the Government is compelled to invest heavily in the health services. According to Gary Fuller of King’s College London, the majority of particulate matter10 road transport pollution does not come from exhausts, but from brakes (50%) and tyres (10%). But there are no policies currently in place to restrict pollution from such