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The development of transportation is one of the most influential aspects that contributed to Globalization. Cars, trains, airplanes and ships physically made the world to be connected. Among these highly important transportation, especially cars and airplanes are more to the point. Some people say airplanes have changes the world by making it possible to move around countries. However I agree that cars have made a greater impact on society than airplanes considering accessible and social influences.
First, cars have much more chances to affect the society rather than airplanes considering its accessibility. People are of great significance consistent of society. Non society can exist without people. Therefore how effective one aspect is to people can show how effective it is to the society. Just think about how familiar cars are to people. Everyday, nearly everyone drives to work, markets, home and etc. Comparing to the high accessibility of cars, airplanes are hardly accessible to normal people. According to the statistical research by Korean government, the average frequency of riding on a plane is once in 15 months per head, while the cars' is once in 18 hours. This survey shows how deeply cars are connected to everyday life, while airplanes aren't. Like this, people have far much chances of using cars and get benefits from them. Comparatively airplanes have very thin opportunity to infiltrate everyday life which suggests lower chances to change the society. To conclude, the significant accessibility of cars comparing to airplanes could have affected largely to people's everyday lives which suggests the higher impacts to the society.
Second, cars changed larger parts of society than airplanes by expending people's social boundaries. The key function of cars is that they made people to go around wider places in accessible way. It is true that airplanes take people longer distances in faster speed than cars, but the point is that normal people only ride planes for only special occasions. So it is the car that takes people to the place they want to go in the normal life. This fact has made huge changes in their lives and society. Forasmuch as the fast transfer has widened the living circle of own, people are freer to go work, shop and meet friends in long distances. They got less burdens of going far places. This made people to select far but cheap residences at surrounding areas rather than the city center, and this trend changed the structure of cities. Which also physically changed the society by geographically changing the city structure. This change is also affected highly by cars.
In conclusion, cars have made a greater and more influential impact on society than airplanes. This statements is supported by accessible and social aspects of cars as illustrated. |