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If you're comparing fixing only new cars as they are sold to fixing ships immeadiately, it's obvious which will have a quicker effect. However, car emission te
by akamaka 11y ago
If you're comparing fixing only new cars as they are sold to fixing ships immeadiately, it's obvious which will have a quicker effect.
However, car emission testing programs already exist which force the driver to do repairs to their existing car.
Pollution deaths are still mostly a local/regional problem, so fixing ship emissions is a problem for port cities, while fixing car emissions is a problem for everyone who lives near a major road.
- mschuster91 11y agoWell, it's easier to fix ships than cars, simply because of numbers (15 ships vs 760 m cars). > However, car emission testing programs already exist which force the driver to do repairs to their existing car. Repairs, yes. But repairs only set the car back to whatever standard applied when it got introduced. Retrofitting is theoretically possible, but at a huge expense to the car owner. And tbh I rather see huge shipping co.s having to pay for upgrading their ships than the often poor people stuck owning a beat-up car. > while fixing car emissions is a problem for everyone who lives near a major road. Problem is that the only real fix is diverting the traffic or eliminating it altogether. Due to the high percentage of old cars on the road new emissions standards are useless for immediate fixes.