Good Speech “Advantages and Disadvantages of automobiles”

Though modern life is much facilitated by automobiles, it would have been better if they were not invented. Do you agree with this statement?

The invention of automobiles has been a landmark in the history of transportation. They are so much a part of modern life that despite their flaws they cannot be dispensed with.

Increased standard of living is reflected today with more number of cars. For personal transportation, having a car means having too many conveniences in the form of commuting, travelling to and fro the child’s school, visiting friends and relatives, roaming around, long drives and travelling out. Single families with cars are a trend these days where cars are playing an important role in maintaining the strength of the family tree. They have a big contribution towards urban sprawl. A good amount of people are able to choose a suburban upbringing for their children, away from congestion and pollution of inner parts of city. This, in turn, has lowered population density in the city centres. Cars have made US typically “a country on wheels”. As far as goods transportation is concerned, modern economics are still much dependent on trucks.

Contrastingly, increased automobiles simply means increased number of accidents and increased air and noise pollution. They are monsters in the eyes of environmental conservationiosts with their role in increasing air pollution. Automobile emissions increase air pollutants like carbon dioxide  and carbon monoxide and contribute to “greenhouse effect” or in other words “global warming”. Toxic hydrocarbons in the emissions are the major contributors to urban smog. We all know how detrimental these auto emissions are for our eyes, skin and cardiorespiratory health as they commonly cause eye irritation, dullness of skin and shortness of breath.

I am not wrong if I say that technological advancement can never be stagnant as materialistic needs of humans will have no end. That is why man just did not stop at the invention of wheel and went on to invent automobiles. Problems are there to work out and not to regret for the invention.