In terms of local transportation, nowadays, people are quite the speed demons, always looking for the quickest route possible. Ever since walking has been out of the question, people have looked towards automobiles to cart them around. Rushing towards the bus or hailing the closest taxi, to calling your friend to drive you around, or using your own vehicle. This has made today’s world a major contradiction in certain terms. Where people now seem to demand the quick and now they also demand to have environmentally friendly and healthy. Instead of taking a step back and going back to the drawing board the quickest solution has been to make “friendlier” cars and toss them out as the world’s greatest invention. At a Detroit car show General Motors Rick Wagoner stated: “We want to produce vehicles where you can be proud of your contribution to the environment, but don't really have to make any trade-offs." This just completely seems like beating the same dead horse with a different, possibly lighter stick to make ourselves feel better about our consumption. It feels more like a delay rather than a solution.
The world isn’t in the most perfect place but there is such a strong pursuit for modernizing for the sake of “improving life”, when in reality we are biting our own asses. There are plenty of alternatives one can take in to cure the clustering city streets that infest most cities, but the one form of transportation that seems to be most ignored or considered a nuisance is the modern day rickshaw, otherwise known as a trishaw.
Rickshaws started out as a wonderful bit of new technology. Wheeler’s article discussing the history of the rickshaw states that it replaced larger chunks of walking or the need to try to buy an animal and ...
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...e and balance to work with in order to not get anyone killed or injured by a simple screw up, but it has worked as such a major source of transportation for generations. Its falling nature in the east could be a precursor for the west and give the idea that there is no real need for them anymore when it is such a lifestyle, job, and a form of art to those who do care. In a world that acts very hard to be conscious over so many things, the people do tend to slim their choices as much as possible.
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