Most companies are developing cars which are able to fly in order to reduce traffic congestion. Do you think this flying car approach is effective to reduce traffic congestion? What other measures do you think to reduce traffic congestion?

Most companies are developing cars which are able to fly in order to reduce traffic congestion. Do you think this flying car approach is effective to reduce traffic congestion? What other measures do you  think to reduce traffic congestion?

 

Yes? Why justify  

Assumption/ postulation/ hypothesis   

• Those supporting this concept assume that when vehicles will be able to become airborne,  they would avoid snarls and it would also reduce the traffic density 

• Cars would also not need roads to drive since they would be take to the skies from the homes and land at destination directly 

No? Why justify 

• This is impractical when it comes to resolving since traffic problems: such machines would need a lot of space to take off: it is impossible to render them space in populated urban locales   

• Traffic congestion will shift from ground to the air, and also present a hazard to birds 

• They will prohibitively expensive for common people to afford 

What other measures do you  think to reduce traffic congestion? 

•  Developing and Promoting public commute 

• Better bus networks 

• Developing fast train network  

• Encouraging people to use bicycles

• Car pooling  

• Better traffic management 

• Construct more bridges and roads 

Introduction 1

In an era, when traffic jams are becoming ubiquitous, many have come up with an inventive idea of introducing cars that can fly. Even though this proposal is hailed as appealing by some, it majorly lacks substance, making it imperative to discover plausible solutions.  

Introduction 2

Even though flying cars have been proposed as an excellent solution to surmount the challenges posed by thickening traffic, it fails to convince the skeptics who favor finding more plausible remedies. 

Those  in favor of this innovative solution assume that such automobiles would greatly help in thinning the traffic density, by virtue of personal four wheelers becoming airborne. This would make roads virtually useless because those traveling from one place to another would take off from the point of origin of their journey and directly arrive at the destination. 

Having said that, such a notion, despite being intriguing, is outrightly impractical since if this solution were implemented, it would cause a great chaos. Creating space to provide runways to such innovative flying machines will become a major worry for urban planning authorities since big cities that are plagued by traffic snarls, tend to use every inch of available area to create some facility for  the urbanites. Moreover, these vehicles are likely to remain a pipe dream because of prohibitively high prices of owning and maintaining them.

Resolving the serious challenge posed by thick vehicular traffic is only possible by adopting prudent steps  rather than squandering valuable financial resources on useless inventions. There is a need to develop and promote mass transit systems: improved bus operation networks and high speed trains, and simultaneously make possessing a car exorbitantly expensive by imposing taxes on purchase, road use, parking and fuel. This policy will dissuade a majority from driving their own vehicles,taking the pressure off the roads.

Overall, one may wonder what cars with wings could do to relieve people from their sufferings, but it has nothing to do with resolving the issue of traffic jams since judicious planning and measures are needed to alleviate this urban malady.