Dear FoLkS,
Recently I have read about the Tata Nano. a beautiful, cute small car, meant for family of 4 (now the general size of a typical Indian family). Its design and engineering is the end result of 500 talented engineers at Tata Moters after continuous testing and research of four years..well this is not the statement which touched me lot, what touched me is the beautiful thought of its chief architect, Mr Ratan Tata.
in his own words,
"Two-wheelers — with the father driving, the elder child standing in front and the wife behind holding a baby — is very much the norm in this country. In that form two-wheelers are a relatively unsafe mode of transporting a family" (Source:
www.tata.com).
Folks! now think about the plight caused to this family while traveling in rains or scorching summers...how unsafe and inconvenient it is for that small baby or child...just think
its not the design/looks of car that interested me, as there are hell lot of cars coming in India having much nice looks and features but its the affordability of car for millions of small-medium income families in India which interested me a lot.
Now so called "environmentalist" are coming up (apart from those many celebrities, "traffic-pollution" conscious personalities, elitist (huh? blaaady $%#%@#@&)) that such car will wreck havoc on roads (congestion, pollution & stuff) but these so called conscious ppl travel in fuel guzzling SUVs, MUVs, blah-blah-UVs then these ppl don’t think about environment?
Congestion on roads and pollution are very minor issues which can be addressed by will of government and private enterprises. Development of new roads, broadening of roads after removing illeagal encroachers are some of the effective ways apart from developing of efficient and safe public transportation systems like Metros, local railways, HCBS (high-capacity bus system) so as to provide safe travel to small-medium income families. Development of car like Nano will only act as catalyst for construction of these public transport systems. Nano will empower many segments by providing "personal-mobility" and will revolutionize the lifes of many.
This car will also give birth to many changes, think about traveling to anywhere by Nano-Autos rather than usual black-yellow autos. News like single son or loving daughter driving bike/scooty got killed after getting skidded in rain or other type of accident will come down by at least 90-95%. Think about the pain a family goes through when their full-grown son/daughter got killed in a road accident..
Comments/feedbacks are always invited..