Is human activity a significant cause of global warming?
“Human activity” covers a lot of ground. But vehicles’ emissions — CO2, NOx and hydrocarbons, as well as particulate matter from diesel engines — those are real. Those are the downside of automotive technology. We in the automotive industry have to feel responsibility for that. One of the most important missions as the top management of this company, for me, is to “zero-nize” those downsides of automobiles. Since I became president of this company, I have always said this is my dream car: It will make the ambient air cleaner the more you drive. If you drive that dream car, it will cause no harm to people and have no accidents. I used to say we should aim for a car that could be driven across North America on one tank of fuel. Now I say one tank to go around the whole world. I also said that the more you drive the dream car, the healthier you will become. And in terms of safety, we’ve added a pre-crash warning. Is global warming real? The first thing we have to do is to try to find ou
