12. Transport

Transport is currently polluting, dangerous and inefficient. Technological advances have been stifled for decades by monetary protectionism. We should not burn any more fossil fuels. We don’t  even need to today.

 

We have the renewable energy, the technology and the will to introduce safe, emission free, driverless vehicles for virtually all our transport needs.

NZ  currently has about 2 million cars. Most of which are old, poorly maintained and parked for 22 hours a day. The sharing of driverless cars would see our national fleet drop to only about  50,000 cars.

The end of pointless jobs would also herald a massive reduction in the number of journeys taken.