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There is a debate over cars and airplanes that “what has made a bigger impact on society?”. In my opinion, cars are absolutely made modern society in terms of their volume of impacts and their closeness to real life. First, if we measure the impact of society by the number of subjects being impacted, cars are overwhelming airplanes. For instance, there are more than 20 million cars are on the roads of South Korea while annual airplane passengers are only 2 millions. If we specify the scope in to the passengers using aircraft for their daily life, 2 millions will shrink less than thousands. That means, cars were accessible to vast majority of normal households and changed their lives while airplanes remained the mobility of few people. Second, by observing the land we living after the birth of new mobility, we can find another reason that cars have made a greater impact. Human society made roads and highways along the towns and cities they live to make the use of cars while airports for airplanes are located in isolated areas. This fact means a lot in terms of social impact. For example, along the roads for cars, we made new stores and houses. And these stores and houses became the ground of many households and changed their daily lives. However, the airport was like an island. By restricted accessibility and its isolated location, it did not changed many lives after it was built. To conclude, by seeing the impact on society as the number of subject being impacted and the influence of mobility to our land, It is easy to reach the conclusion that cars made a bigger impat on society.
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