Social Consequences of Automobiles This paper is an analysis of the impact of the increasing number of automobiles on the global environment, people’s lives and health, and the structure of Western society. In addition to exploring the impact of automobiles, technologies that have been developed to cope with the problems will be examined, as well as potential long-term solutions to the social and ecological problems caused by automobiles. While the ecological impact of automobiles …showed first 75 words of 1700 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1700 total…sell its pollution credits to other firms that require additional time to meet their schedules. (Bronner 1997: 507.) Unfortunately individuals refuse to acknowledge the incredible prices that they already pay for pollution, lost productive time in highway congestion, personal medical costs, and taxes spent on public health care and the automobile infrastructure. Only when these social ecological impacts of the automobile become widely accepted will the major barriers be removed to dealing with the crisis of automobility.