https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod en-us 2022-02-02 16:30:59 UTC 2026-03-03 14:41:22 UTC hello@padlet.com colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2025852680 Henry Ford was not the creator of the automobile, but he was the first to mass produce it. Cars were few and far between before Henry Ford decided to make cars available for significantly more people which created a few issues. One of the most important issues is car accidents. Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The next issue automobiles create is pollution. “A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year” (CDC).  The mass production of automobiles has hastened global warming worldwide. Prior to Henry Ford's contributions to the automobile world, cars were only owned by the rich, so the carbon footprint was not nearly as huge as it is now. The same can be said about traffic. Henry Ford wanted quick transportation to be available to everyone, but the roads started to become filled with cars, and at times traffic can make a car far slower than walking.]]> 2022-02-02 17:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2025852680 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2025876633 -Gas powered cars leave a large a carbon footprint and pose a massive threat to global warming 

-“Every second the nation's 200 million motor vehicles travel 60,000 miles, use 3,000 gallons of petroleum products and add 60,000 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere—that's two-thirds of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.”

-“A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.”

-“In addition to carbon dioxide (CO2), automobiles produce methane (CH4)and nitrous oxide (N2O) from the tailpipe.” ]]> 2022-02-02 17:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2025876633 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692043 -Green Cities instead of Green Cars: 

-" it's not just the oil. Even if powered by biodiesel, hydrogen or sunbeams the private automobile is still part of an unsustainable urban system that requires massive networks of streets, freeways, and parking structures to serve congested cities and far-flung suburbs."

-"If the auto industry is to have any future in a post-oil world, it may have to retrain its workers to build the efficient mass-transit systems that will serve the new ecologically healthy Green Cities, towns and villages of the 21st century. Environmentalists and autoworkers should begin thinking hard about how to rebuild low-energy, car-free cities."

-"Pedestrian-friendly Green Cities—built for people, bicycles, mass transit and renewable energy—would not only cut air pollution, they also would promote the rebuilding of essential soil and water resources while increasing plant and animal biodiversity."

- "Rebuilding cities for pedestrians will reverse sprawl by bringing departure points and destinations closer together."

-Metropolitan areas now spread over (hundreds of) thousands of acres need to break up into discrete communities—forming archipelagos of smaller, compact Green Cities around what are today's downtowns. ]]> 2022-02-04 02:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692043 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692177 -People in the U.S spend “8 billion hours a year stuck in traffic.”

-“Rising traffic congestion is an inescapable condition in large and growing metropolitan areas across the world, from Los Angeles to Tokyo, from Cairo to Sao Paolo. Peak-hour traffic congestion is an inherent result of the way modern societies operate.”

-“everyone hates traffic congestion, and it keeps getting worse, in spite of attempted remedies.”

-“Because efficient operation of both the economy and school systems requires that people work, go to school, and even run errands during about the same hours so they can interact with each other. That basic requirement cannot be altered without crippling our economy and society. The same problem exists in every major metropolitan area in the world.”

-“With 87.9 percent of America’s daily commuters using private vehicles, and millions wanting to move at the same times of day, America’s basic problem is that its road system does not have the capacity to handle peak-hour loads without forcing many people to wait in line for that limited road space.”

-“Greatly expanding road capacity. The second approach would be to build enough road capacity to handle all drivers who want to travel in peak hours at the same time without delays. But this “cure” is totally impractical and prohibitively expensive.”


]]> 2022-02-04 02:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692177 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692765 -“Beyond the $93 billion a year that local, state and national governments spend on roads."

-“What false economy allows us to dismiss these debts? To simply credit highway-based transportation as 18 percent of our gross domestic product—more than health and education combined.”

-"Greatly expanding road capacity. The second approach would be to build enough road capacity to handle all drivers who want to travel in peak hours at the same time without delays. But this “cure” is totally impractical and prohibitively expensive."



]]> 2022-02-04 02:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028692765 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028693041 -“despite improvements in automobile safety, projections have indicated that deaths from traffic crashes will increase significantly by 2030 because of increased motor vehicle ownership.”

-“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the first three decades of Americans’ lives.”

-“Motor vehicle crashes killed over 35,000 people in 2015 — that’s about 96 people every day.”

-“Motor vehicle-related injuries send more than 2.3 million people to hospital emergency departments every year.”

]]> 2022-02-04 02:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028693041 colintimmermann24 https://padlet.com/colintimmermann24/9bvkxzick565tyod/wish/2028761603 -"Ford promised that his car “will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.”

-Mass production of the automobile made it affordable to middle-class Americans, changing the lifestyle of many.”

-“Ford realized that if he could use the assembly line to produce one model of car with basic features, he could turn cars out faster and with less cost. And that would mean that more people would be able to afford an automobile.”  

-“The first Model T’s cost $825. By 1925, they were selling for $260.”

-“I will build a motor car for the great multitude,”-Henry Ford

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