Team 6: Week 10 Report
I have really found a comfort zone in which to relax and enjoy the act of searching the internet. I have found that excite does the job for me. I have tried the norm, searches like Lycos, and Webcrawler. I even tried the all in one search, but non
really fit my cup of tea. So I did a search in excite, non-automobile traffic to be exact. It was simply exciting. I thumbed through the list until a title caught my eye. It was called the Cars Suck Manifesto. It was almost exactly what I was looking
for, anything against the car culture.
The article and page attempts to make people realize that we have a cultural dependence, almost obsession with our cars. They point out that cars are "killing our ability to interact as human beings" and that we are all "dominated by the stress of sp
ending up to six hours a day sitting in a metal and glass box, crawling forward as we grimly ignore other commuting prisoners." Isn't that totally dramatic. Imagine it, commuting to and from school in hours of traffic in a metal tin can. Hard to believ
e? Well, many of us do it on a daily basis, confining ourselves in a motorized box, isolated from the world around us.
I must agree with the fact that it is rather impersonal riding in a car by yourself to and from work, school or any other destination, but it's the way we choose to live our lives. We live in an individualistic society, thinking of me, me, me and non
-one else. Why do you think buses are rarely used and the highways get more and more crowded as the years go by. Everyone wants their own expensive metal status symbol to travel in.
I found this page interesting because it showed a genuine concern for the well being of others and the moral fabric of society. They address the environmental issue that automobile usage cause pollution, but they also address the social issue. I fin
d this unique and very important. Many times we focus on the ozone layer and the benefits of bicycles on the roadways, but what about what our society is based on...the living breathing humans, us. We are all participants in this game of life. Our acti
ons preface the future and being anti-social will get us nowhere.
This topic is very much prevalent to the study of traffic psychology because it carries us into a new realm of thought. It provides yet another arena to study. Not only our behavior in traffic situations should be deemed important, but also our lack
of interaction, our self centered behavior.
We all do not function in this world as separate entities, in fact we operate as a system, together, to accomplish one goal, successful, happy lives.
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