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This book questions the ethics of government officials' and automobile industry representatives' strategies to promote automobiles over other forms of transportation in China and India. It begins by reviewing the early history of the symbiotic relationship of automobile representatives and government officials in America that led to automobile proliferation and the well-entrenched car culture that we have today. The book then shows how these same dynamics and strategies are at work in China and India and how in each country, transportation policies have favoured private and individual forms of transportation over public ones.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction; The Template: America Adopts Automobiles; China Drives to Economic Prosperity; India's Impending Minicar Monsoon; China's & India' Strategies -- Similarities & Differences; Problems Associated with Promoting Cars in China & India; King's Blood -- Feeding the Need for Oil -- An Unquenchable Thirst for Oil; "What Was I Thinking?" & the Psychological Forces Behind Harmful Action; Determining Ethical Culpability; Exploring Alternatives; Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Dealing with The King; Index.
Summary
Questions the ethics of government officials' and automobile industry representatives' strategies to promote automobiles over other forms of transportation in China and India. This title reviews the early history of the symbiotic relationship of automobile representatives and government officials in America that led to automobile proliferation.
