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04-03-2011, 11:23 AM | #1 | |||
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Not often you get a Chairman coming out and saying the very products his company makes has the potential to take away peoples human rights.
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04-03-2011, 11:39 AM | #2 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Could be guilt? Sounds odd for him to make those comments, maybe he has some humanity in him and is simply worried where we are headed?
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04-03-2011, 12:06 PM | #3 | ||
Rob
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whats gridlock got to do with how many cars are sold. you can only drive 1 at a time, so if there is more cars, its more to do with rising population, not rising car sales. car sales are just a result of population growth.
like populations though, old cars are going to their graves while the new ones are being bought so just becuase x amount of new cars sell, doesn't mean the total number of cars on the road has gone up by that amount. |
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04-03-2011, 12:58 PM | #4 | ||
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Corporate Social Responsibility - There is a lot more emphasis on it these days!
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04-03-2011, 01:00 PM | #5 | ||
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I think the issue of Gridlock is something that Town Planners need to look at not Car Manufacturers. The state and size of the roads here and in other countries is ridiculous. If they provide more capacity on the roads then Gridlock would be reduced. China is a great example 20 years ago virtually nobody had a car and now every man and his dog has one and the road system cant keep up with the huge explosion in the number of road users
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04-03-2011, 01:02 PM | #6 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Don't places like japan distroy cars after 7 - 8 years??
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04-03-2011, 02:50 PM | #7 | ||
let it burn
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Multi day gridlock?
Yeah, bugger that. |
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04-03-2011, 03:20 PM | #8 | |||
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When you have politicians as we had not too long ago proudly stating "peak hour congestion is the sign of a growing economy" however , then realistically there is a limited reason for optimism in my opinion. Peter. |
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04-03-2011, 03:47 PM | #9 | |||
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The article states Mr Ford expects car ownership in the World to go from 800 million now, to approx 2 billion (maybe 4 billion), Its hardly a 1 for 1 replacement. I dont know what the situation is like now, but I remember living in Fitzroy (vic) 10 years ago, and just trying to go anywhere during peakhour was a nightmare. I often found that a 30 minute walk to the supermarket got me there just as quickly as my car did. I understand it would be impossible to get twice as busy as peak hour (in terms of traffic), but just imagine a 4 hour peak hour. Even freeways like the western ring road or the south eastern are car parks during peak hour. Just imagine if we caved into all those who want to increase our population to 50 million people. |
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