The race among the world’s automakers for getting greener technologies has an end motive, automakers like Audi and Volkswagen are working on clean diesel technologies while others are trying to achieve zero emissions on the road. The motive is “to protect environment and public health” as a research conducted by the researchers at University of Utrecht Netherland shows that up to six per cent of lung cancer deaths in the UK and the USA are directly related to diesel exhausts.
This research was conducted in the broad perspective of environmental health but the findings were horrifying. The Research says that people who are directly linked with a kind of occupational exposure to extensive diesel exhaust accounted for a 20 per cent extra chance of having lung-cancer. This work-related contact with extensive diesel exhaust accounted for 4.8 per cent lung-cancer deaths in UK and USA while a 1.3 per cent deaths of those who were living close to the highways.
Diesel Emissions
Study further explains that the miners, truckers and people directly related to diesel combustions are more likely to get lung cancer so; they exclusively involved the truckers and miners in the research process who were exposed to emissions from diesel engines produced in 1970s and 1990s.
This new research further explains that a lifetime exposure to diesel exhaust causes 690 extra deaths from lung-cancer for every 10,000 workers. This is an extra 6.9 per cent risk of death from lung-cancer, but the good news is that the old diesel engines have significantly dropped in numbers in UK, USA and Japan in the past decade. Today’s diesel engines are very cleaner and emit 10 percent less emissions and particulates than petrol engines. EU has set emission goals to control exhausts and automakers are also eager to meet the targets
