text: One advantage to limiting car usage is it improves safety. Safety in a community is what we all strive for and by taking this step, we can improve people's saftey immensely. By having less cars on the road, there is a lesser chance for fatal accidents to occur. As well, you will improve your own safety by not getting into a car as much. It will lower your chance of getting into a fatal accident yourself.  If you choose an alternate mode to transportation, you may also just increase your mood. In Elisabeth Rosenthal's article of "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", a man named Heidrun Walter said that "when I had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way (without a car to drive). Driving can lead to a negative mood, but mix that with danger and the results could get terrible.