Automobiles, as well as other methods of transportation, where created to enhance mobility. This invention made it easier to travel from one place to another in a shorter amount of time and more efficiently. Driving around extends your memory because you remember areas you have been through, you learn different routes and eventually you also learn shortcuts. Although automobiles have been a great invention, they have made obsolete the other methods used before. Before all of these inventions people traveled by foot to any place they wanted to go. Horses where later used to travel faster from place to place but depending on the destination this could take several days. Carriages where then pulled by horses, bicycles, skateboards and skates where used by many instead of the cars, but as time passed these became more popular and not having one was impossible. The invention of automobiles has created a lazy and mostly overweight population because many people stopped walking and exercising with their use. We simply sit in a chair, twist the hand a little to turn it on, push a pedal, and get to our destination without really moving. These also have caused ecological damage because of the strong chemicals and gasses they release.
Automobiles have become necessary for many people now a day. Many depend on them to move around and if we don’t have one then we don’t do anything, we simply stay wherever we are. There is a very small amount that walks or uses a different method for transportation, such as walking or one less harmful to the environment. Some of the old mediums are still used, but rarely. Bicycles, skateboards, and skates have been retrieved once again because of the ecological changes we have been experiencing. Horses are no longer used as a method of transportation, but are mainly used as entertainment now a day. Carriages have become completely obsolete. Personally I don’t believe that automobiles are necessary at all moments. They definitely help when you have to travel long distances and they permit us to do this in less time than using a bicycle. We have many ways of transportation that may not be as easy, but they are cheaper and less harmful. I believe that for long distance they are acceptable, but if it is a short ride, why waste money and gas? When pushed to its extreme automobiles can be very dangerous. Other than causing ecological damage they are dangerous. Every year we experience countless accidents and deaths when these are not used correctly and responsibly. These may also fail on us. For example breaking down in the middle of the road, causing you to have a bad day.
Automobiles are basically the product of a designer. Without the designer we wouldn’t have the variety of styles, colors, and designs that we see now a day. Slowly we have seen how the design and technology of every automobile has improved. Before they where very simple and just had what was needed to move from one place to another. Now they have air conditioner, power doors and windows, radio, mp3 players, and even dvd players in some. As a designer I believe that automobiles will have a greater variety of accessories. Their design will be sleeker and cleaner. The interior will have the latest technology including touch screens, integrated computers and televisions, and numerous things that one could never imagine an automobile could have. Hopefully they will be hybrid or powered by the sun in a near future to control the ecological damages they cause now a day.
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