A world where all is free: *Shudder*

Thursday, January 06, 2005

*Shudder*
A G Sachs report claims that there are 5 million cars in India (2000 figures) and all things going well (i.e. assumptions coming true), this will go up to 610 million cars in 2050.

Guess the implicit assumption is that there'll be 100 story flyovers to accomodate these cars, and 100 story parking lots (With petrol pumps at floors 20, 40 , 60 and 80?!).
Alternatively, the average width of cars will come down a 100 times, i.e. to about 2 cm wide each. Hmm are we talking cars or (motor-powered) roller skates here?!

Well, OK, to be fair the US has 135 million cars (2000 figures) and they don't need 27 storied flyovers.

The article here. See page 23 for the table on number of cars.

- posted by Rallix @ 4:01 AM

Comments:

Any ideas on what fuel these cars would be running?

# posted by

Vivek Kumar : Thu Jan 06, 06:27:00 AM

Raju, you missed the table just below the total number of cars table which says that cars owned per 1000 people in 2050 will be 382 in India. pop of india will be 1.6 billion in 2050 according to another table.
Yes, the thought of fuel did strike me, having read multiple articles and mails on the subject.
Guess the point here is not the number of cars per se, but some similar substitute (in value and impact on economy) as time goes along.

# posted by

Rallix : Thu Jan 06, 09:04:00 PM

You mean 0.382 not 0.382%.

# posted by

Rallix : Fri Jan 07, 12:04:00 AM

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