If cars are the most dangerous way of trannsporation why does everyone drive them?

Question

I mean everyone worries more about plains, on of the safest ways, why don't people ride vepas(which are alot cheeper ) or walk or something, why do people continue driving death machines?

Answer 1

not everyone lives in the city, not everyone lives in nice weather, not everyone has access to cabs, not everyone has access to public busses or subways. see my point

Answer 2

convenience - it's alot easier to just hop into your car than to try catch a bus at a certain time. Many of us who do not live in larger cities do not have access to taxi or subway travel either.

Answer 3

mainly because we have no other means of transportation  available. our lives and society is based on transportation making cars the most efficient  means of transportation for now

Answer 4

The cars are not the problem. It's the people who are behind the wheel. Drivers go too fast for the kinds of roads we have and the machines are built to go at ever-increasing rates. People believe that they can actually drive at faster speeds because the cars can do it. The drivers don't pay enough attention, play the radio or CD or MP3 as loud as they can, use cell phones, have a "meal"  or a snack at the wheel, or drink alcohol then drive. No one is cautious anymore, and worse, no one cares.

Answer 5

The reason people still drive is that it is a tool, a very versatile tool. This tool will take you 20 miles to work and back each day. This tool will carry you from New York to Los Angeles and back. It will climb to the top of Pike's Peak. It will take you across the Arizona desert at noon. It will carry 1000 pounds of people inside.

It will carry hundreds of pounds more of cargo in the truck and on the roof. It will tow at least 1500 pounds. It will be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It will provide time to listen, to music, the talk shows, to sports, in privacy and comfort. And on the coldest night of the year, when your baby turns blue at 2 a.m., this tool will get you to the hospital.

Answer 6

You obviously have never been to a place with Millions of Vepas..like China!!

I fly over 100,000 miles per year and never worry about a plane.

Have you looked at a map of this country to calculate times of commuting as you propose?