Teacher said cars will be banned and everyone will have to use public transport

Don't worry.
Either she is impulsively sharing her own favourite type of wishful thinking without having considering how students will react or she's in the habit of scaring students with utter nonsense.
Private cars, vans, motor cycles and transport like taxis & minicabs will never be banned in the UK.

Yeah private vehicles might get cleaner but they're not going anywhere soon. Plenty of UK places don't have good/effective public transport links and that isn't changing anytime soon, a sudden outright ban on private vehicles would genuinely have folk out rioting

Where would people get taxis? What about traders and contractors? Are the folk installing your central heating just going to hoik the boiler and all the pipes onto the old 75 bus?

The other students didn't seem to be bothered. Im just worried about if people might have said that years ago if you told someone petrol and diesel cars will be banned you probably would get laughed at but hopefully they will stay.

Unless your teacher moonlights as a v senior and indiscreet government planning officer it's as LM said, wishful thinking.

Many motoring predications get laughed at but this one wouldn't, most people knew fine well we WOULD ban petrol sooner or later, and the banning of the sale of new ones is a far cry from banning them from roads (and for now, 2030 is little more than a political promise from a known liar desperately seeking distractions who likes gimmicks and round numbers)

Hopefully we'll be fine then but still electric cars are going to be boring

It could not happen in the next few years but what about after that.


They might allow taxis, buses trains, trams and stuff but ban private ownership or rental. It would be depressing

Teachers will be banned then you will have to rely on TSR and copying from each other.

It's not workable. Where would drivers get taxis from if no one sells cars here? Delivery drivers? Takeaway drivers? They'd likely need to be imported at some huge special cost, who would service them or sell them fuel? no money in owning a garage any more.. Trams are far too rare to be really mentioned for the UK and many places have crap buses and trains.... removing private vehicles simply isn't an option. Also think how many larger companies would struggle to operate if a disruption to public transport meant almost NONE of their staff could come to work, rather than a few? Something like a bus driver strike could literally cripple the country.

Any attempt to say 'oh business owners and taxi drivers can drive' and watch how many people register as a business or taxi driver the next day.

Teachers will be banned then you will have to rely on TSR and copying from each other.

Don't worry, this will never happen.

I’d be quite happy with only public transport (at a much better level than it is now) or fully electric cars/buses.
But unlikely it will happen in our lifetime if ever