text: Another advantage to not owning or using a car would be the pollution levels in the earths atmosphere would go down. In sourse 2:paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer it states that "after days of near-record pollution, paris enforced a parital driving ban to clean the air of the global city". Now the people of the world should have never let pollutin get this bad. The french more of paris had smog (a type of pollution) for at least a week. In sourece 4: the end of the car culture by Elizabeth Rosenthal it states that "As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was on January 1995". So the cars limitations is actually helping lower the number of miles which means the pollution rate is also going down.