A car is ...
A 1000kg mesh of metal, plastic, glass and rubber rolling around on the road carrying a 70kg human being.
The person is less than 10% of the entire weight of the package.
If you look at it in terms of petrol usage, for every 40 litres of it used, only about 3.5 of it is actually burnt to move you around. The rest of it is used to move the car itself. No doubt it's protecting us - from nature (sun, rain), from dust, from other cars. But do we really need something more than 10 times our own weight to do that? Won't a simple plastic sheet do the job?
The car is one heavy, oversized, spoilt-brat that insists on coming along with us everywhere we go. If only we could lose the wheels.
The person is less than 10% of the entire weight of the package.
If you look at it in terms of petrol usage, for every 40 litres of it used, only about 3.5 of it is actually burnt to move you around. The rest of it is used to move the car itself. No doubt it's protecting us - from nature (sun, rain), from dust, from other cars. But do we really need something more than 10 times our own weight to do that? Won't a simple plastic sheet do the job?
The car is one heavy, oversized, spoilt-brat that insists on coming along with us everywhere we go. If only we could lose the wheels.