Comment on Americans can no longer afford their carsparentComments−ultrarunner2y52% increase in US population 1980-2023 vs essentially flat growth in total vehicle sales−AlbertCory2yThis might be one case where a very long term look (43 years) is misleading. "Last 10 years" might be more instructive.Cars have gotten much better. Back in 1980 it was very unusual for a car to go 100,000 miles.This data suggests Newsweek has a non-story: the number of carless households has not gone up at all.https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/car-ownership-st...https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...Perhaps a lot of car sales were actually additional cars for a household that already had one or more, and now that desire has been satiated.
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52% increase in US population 1980-2023 vs essentially flat growth in total vehicle sales
This might be one case where a very long term look (43 years) is misleading. "Last 10 years" might be more instructive.
Cars have gotten much better. Back in 1980 it was very unusual for a car to go 100,000 miles.
This data suggests Newsweek has a non-story: the number of carless households has not gone up at all.
https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/car-ownership-st...
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...
Perhaps a lot of car sales were actually additional cars for a household that already had one or more, and now that desire has been satiated.