we’ll start in the discussion about the car and car-free cities and the mobility of the future with the facts of the present. The control of the flow of thought.
What we talk about when we talk about the car: The car industry today has Employed about 800,000 directly, and 1.5 million Jobs depend indirectly from the car. In the year – a year – is this industry has a turnover of more than EUR 400 billion.
More than every second German own a car. 70 per cent travel regularly, more than a third departs daily. No other Form of transportation is so popular. In 2014, the Germans have laid back more than 929 billion kilometres by car.
A car is only sheet metal
in Germany without a car? Is not running. Not yet, anyway. Especially since the car has taken out a component across the sheet. It is one of the showpiece objects for possessions, for property, for personal freedom. What I’m driving, am I? At least in the reflection of a part of the viewer.
The automobile is thus, on the one hand, for self-esteem and self-confidence – and on the other hand, for the necessary profanity. It is a technical device that is important for our world, for shopping, to bring the children to school, to go on holiday; it is a means for an infinite number of workers who commute over many miles to your place, for care services, small trade businesses.
you all can not afford the nice new car the world, in terms of cost, time. Car-Sharing offers are not do not yet, because not everywhere cars are available, E-cars or Hybrids because they cost too much. And the burners are now also more expensive. Who can afford that?
you must be able to afford for the first time
Yes, some of us speak with your car, love it too, and nowhere is the car company that is so constitutive. However, the empirically verifiable claim that self-realization is through advanced forms of self-movement is simply possible for everyone. The realization of do not wish, in principle, more desirable policy designs; they encounter the social reality of the majority.
For a lot more people than desired, it is much more than that to move just faster. It comes to the possibility of self-organization for life. And here the car is still flexibility and higher independence. 70 percent of Germans say that the car is for you to use. The cult of the object car you can afford.
moreover, there is Also the idea of possession and ownership. Reinhard Brandt, University of Marburg Professor, describes in the Preface to a book about the philosophical property of theories from Plato to Habermas, the modern era tried to integrate European property law in the philosophy of Freedom.
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debate on mobility “cars abolish” the Green bodies prior to transport Senator
Robert Kiesel
This reads like one for the car, thought: “The property is therefore not compatible with human freedom only compatible, but is an essential part of this freedom. It is not bound by a corresponding duty not only socially, but is subject to the idea of a just freedom order of the bourgeois society.“ This aspect is hidden in the answers to the question of how traffic is in the morning to organize. Who hides but facts, is in danger to collide with reality.
