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Banning the use of private cars is ridiculous, even though some incentives to the usage of higher-efficiency vehicles (motorcycles too) would be welcome. There are some cities in Brazil where at least one major avenue (or a stretch) gets closed to traffic on Sundays, such as the Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, with the side-effect of rendering the access to many hospitals within the area more complicated. Other traffic restrictions enforced at some jurisdictions are also noteworthy, such as the plate-based Hoy No Circula days in Mexico City or the RodÃ*zio in São Paulo, yet at least in São Paulo many people would either buy another car (often older and more polluting) or a motorcycle (which are exempted of the RodÃ*zio by default).
When it comes to China, besides the huge mistake which was teaching the state-owned Chinese automakers how to make modern FWD cars instead of leaving them to sort it out by themselves, it's also worth to remember how the Chinese dumping ruined the industrial output of other poor countries, not only in Asia but also in Latin America, Africa and Middle East.
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