Tata India launching People's car? my Foot!

Its deeply disturbing that today Tata India unveil their $2.5k car which will play havok with the safety, polution and quality of life in India in particular and world in general.

Given the attractive price, it is bound to be a success. People fed on relentless consumerism have come to believe that owning a car is an achivement in life!

The logic for this car is that life of people having scooter is pathetic and they would be now blessed with a car to take around their family. Unsaid is, probably now they will compromise on the tutor for the child or the vitamin for the elders inorder to pay the increased gasoline bill.

It looks cute and filmsy!

The safety of this car is likely to be questionable. If Tata India was scrupulous and confident enough, they should have launched in Europe first to develop credibility before thrusting on a 3rd world country like India. They cannt have done that since their safety standards wouldnt be acceptable in Europe. Time will tell if and to what extent they have compromised on safety aspects. They should get it Euro cleared.

If their was iota of sense in Tata India, they would have worked to adopt green energy or economical rapid mass transportation system.

Gasoline is allready subsidized in India and this launch will mean that Goverment of India would spend more on Gasoline when this money could be productively used to uplift the pathetic infrastructure, education, health care.

That will mean higher car density in all cities in India. This will burden the allready burdened infrastructure in India and commuters will spend more time on road.

Polution will zoom up. It will contribute handsomly to the global warming. While the world is walking towards mass transport system, India is walking backward towards individual cars. Its a resoundingly regressive development.

From the bottom of my heart, I wish failure of this launch of cheap car. They are touting it as people's car and hoping that they can fool the people so that they dont see the harm it will do to generations of Indians and later, Im sure other 3rd world countries.