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Originally Posted by Steeroid  If people with similar feelings had their way in the early 80s when Maruti was planning to launch, we'd still be driving to work in Ambassadors, Fiats and Heralds. Thank god for Sanjay Gandhi - the REAL father of motoring in India.
If driving has become progressively more difficult over the last ten years it is not Maruti's fault but the fault of a shortsighted government which still expects the country to churn out double digit growth figures on an infrastructure that was put in place in the early 5-year plans of Jawaharlal Nehru. It is a pity that it took the first full-term non-congress government to relook at the infrastructure that he put in place.
How come nobody blames Bill Gates for the slow bandwidth we have to live with thanks to the proliferation of personal computers? If we didnt have Windows we'd probably have computers relegated to the IT departments, no torrent streams and no congestion on the internet. |
Sure the government has a lot to answer for but the manufacture also has a moral responsibility especially if they are fully aware of the problems that the launch of their product will create.
Its like McDonalds (and the other fast food chains) and the storm over obesity. At the end of the day no one forces the food down peoples mouths but the companies have made a move into providing healthy options due to the obesity issue (& commercial reasons).
Sometimes a manufacture has to look at related issues and in this case I am of the opinion that the issue of driving standards in India should be looked at.
I doubt anyone will bother and at the end of the day it is joe public who will suffer.