▶ Your Answer :
In modern days, most of people travel by
either cars or airplanes, depending on how much distance they have to cover. Such
invention of transportation mitigated the restriction imposed on people with
extremely long distances since our legs are too fragile relative to the size of
the landmasses surrounding us. However, I assert that the overall impact that
the cars have given to us is much greater than the airplanes have given to us.
Firstly, cars are much more accessible to
the majority than airplanes. Normally, if we walk out in the streets, what we
see most frequently will be cars passing by but we do not usually see airplanes
running around in the streets. Considering the price of an airplane ticket, the
price of taking a taxi is certainly a mere fraction which is the main reason
why cars are more accessible to the public. Also, while anyone in the society
can obtain car driver’s license, becoming a pilot usually requires years of
professional education and arduous trainings. Thus, I claim that cars have had
greater impact on society since not so many people can have access to airplanes
considering its price and complexity of permission to legally drive one.
Secondly, despite the fact that the
airplanes are much faster with higher passenger capacity, I assert that the
cars’ influence on the society is much more significant. Historically, cars
were invented earlier than the airplanes did which means that cars were the
first advanced transportation that facilitated faster movement of people and ideas.
Although airplanes could travel more distances and was not subject to waters
(cars can’t drive through the sea), cars were the first to provide people the
freedom of traveling relatively long distances independently and quickly. Therefore,
I suggest that cars have more significance in society because it was invented
earlier, providing many freedoms to people prior to airplanes.
In conclusion, I claim that cars have much
more impact on society than airplanes because cars are more accessible to the
public and cars have more historical significance considering its time of
invention along with what the invention had provided to people.
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