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Monday 22nd of July 2024
1%ers say
The best gift I've received recently
was a limited edition 12-cylinder
Aston-Martin Vanquish and a
vintage 1960s Corvette,
for my birthday.
I have some beautiful sports cars
that I like to look at but rarely have
time to drive – maybe one day.
Fawaz Gruoisi, jeweler,
How To Spend It, June 10, 2016
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American Dream
A high Uber rating
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By the numbers
Amount that North Korea owes
New York City in parking tickets:
$152,505
That Egypt owes:
$1,989,554
Harper's Index, December 2017
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By the numbers
Average number of hours
that a driver in Los Angeles
spends sitting in traffic each year:
104
That a driver in New York City
spends looking for a parking spot:
107
Harper's Index, October 2017
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By the numbers
Number of U.S. states in which
legislation has been proposed this year
to protect drivers who strike protesters:
6
Harper's Index, November 2017
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By the numbers
Perentage by which using traffic circles
rather than stop signs at intersections
decreases injurious car accidents:
75
Percentage of U.S. intersections
that are traffic circles:
0.09
Harper's Index, June 2016
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By the numbers
Percentage change since 2006
in the number of U.S. cities that have
banned living in vehicles:
+143
Harper's Index, March 2017
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By the numbers
With more than
35,000 road deaths a year,
the US has the highest rate of
fatal auto accidents per capita
of any high-income country,
and almost all of these
are caused by human error.
Financial Times, September 21, 2016
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Car culture
Americans are so dependent
on their cars that investors are
betting that they would rather
lose their home to foreclosure
than their car to repossession.
¶
Or in the words of a
Santandar Consumer investor,
“You can sleep in your car, but you
can't drive your house to work.”
New York Times, January 27, 2015
(Santandar Consumer is a leading
high-interest subprime auto lender)
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Car culture
Ordering a car via an app
means the profits leave town.
Margaret Heffernan,
Financial Times, April 17, 2017
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Car culture
The pattern of car purchasing
maps on to the US political divide.
Republicans are more likely than Democrats
to buy a new vehicle of any kind,
and vastly more likely to buy a big one.
About 65 per cent of buyers of the largest
pickup trucks, utility vehicles and SUVs
last year were Republican, compared with
just 15 per cent bought by Democrats,
according to a survey by the
research company Strategic Vision.
John Burn-Murdoch,
Financial Times, February 23, 2023
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Car culture
A survey by Accenture found that
only 2 per cent of car executives
“plan to significantly increase
investment” in reskilling programmes,
even though most acknowledge that
workers require new skill sets to work
with robotics, cloud computing
and artificial intelligence.
Financial Times, June 17, 2018
[They rather hire new workers]
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Car culture
The worst-kept secret in Motown is a
forthcoming long-wheelbase version [of
the Jeep Grand Wagoneer] to compete with
Suburban, Navigator I, and Escalade ESV.
Good news, equestrians, now your horse
doesn't have to ride in the trailer.
Dan Neil,
Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2022
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Cars
The average annual cost of ownership
is up more than 13 percent from last year
to more than $12,000, or just over $1,000
a month, according to the latest research
from the automobile owners group AAA.
…
It estimates the cost of using a new car
over five years and 75,000 miles, con-
sidering costs for fuel and maintenance,
insurance, license and registration fees,
taxes, and depreciation.
It doesn’t include the cost of parking,
which can add hundreds or thousands
of dollars to the cost of car ownership
if you live in a big city.
New York Times, September 22, 2023
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Cities
We shall solve the problem of the city
by leaving the city.
Henry Ford
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Duh obvious
A new Commerce Department report
says self-driving vehicles are likely to
have a greater impact on job prospects
of people who drive full-time,
like bus, taxi and truck drivers,
than on people who don't,
like real estate brokers and plumbers
reported by
Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2017
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Republicans say
Allowing
– even encouraging –
lenders to charge Blacks and Latinos
higher interest rates for car loans
is change we believe in
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Republicans say
Protecting drivers from liability
for injuring protesters on streets
is change we believe in
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Robots
Well, we're just going to
replace them all with robots.
Jeff Holden,
Uber's chief product officer,
responding to concerns expressed
about discontent among Uber's drivers
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Car culture
Analysis from the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration has shown
that pedestrians who are hit by pickups or
S.U.V.s are two to three times more likely
to die than those who are hit by cars.
In fact, the number of pedestrians killed
by vehicles rose forty-six per cent
between 2010 and 2019.
John Seabrook,
The New Yorker, January 24, 2022
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Car culture
As American cars have bulked up,
the number of fatalities for the drivers and
passengers inside these rolling fortresses
has fallen by 22 per cent.
But the number of pedestrians killed
has risen by 57 per cent.
John Burn-Murdoch,
Financial Times, February 23, 2023
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Car culture
The F8 is a wellspring
of moral delinquency:
0–124 mph in 7 seconds.
Now that's social distancing done right.
Dan Neil, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2020,
review of Ferrari's new F8 Tributo
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Car culture
If we dont have barriers, walls
– call them what you want –
but if we don't have very strong barriers,
where people can not any longer drive
right across – they have unbelievable
vehicles; they make a lot of money.
They have the best vehicles you can buy.
They have stronger, bigger, and faster
vehicles than our police have,
and than ICE has,
and than Border Patrol has.
So they're pretty good at that.
Donald Trump
on migrants crossing the southern border
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Housing
In a typical year,
the country builds more three-car garages
than one-bedroom apartments.
Dante Ramos,
The Atlantic, July/August 2023
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Housing
More square footage
is dedicated to parking each car
than to housing each person.
Henry Grabar,
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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Making money
the old-fashioned way
Manufacturing hubcaps
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Resisters say
Public trust
24%
27%
Trump
Gas Station
Sushi
Placard,
Washington, DC, Women's March 2019,
January 19, 2019
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Sleepers at the wheel say
And we love it when you build cars
– if you're a Japanese firm, we love it –
try building your cars in the United States
instead of shipping them over.
Is that possible to ask?
That's not rude.
Is that rude?
I don't think so.
Donald Trump,
Tokyo speech, November 6, 2017,
to American and Japanese business leaders
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Tech bros say
Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar
Ronen Safai Chan as a label
and motherfucking crew
And if you are down with Peskin Preston
Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a crew
fuck you too
Die slow motherfuckers
Garry Tan,
Y Combinator CEO,
12:25 AM – Jan 27, 2024,
expressing displeasure at progressive members
of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
for raising concerna about driverless cars
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Tech bros say
Make drivers passengers
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Trumpists say
The problem is the human heart,
it’s not guns, it’s not the weapons.
At the end of the day, we have to
protect the right of the citizens
to protect themselves, and that’s
the Second Amendment, and that’s why
our party stands so strongly for that. This is
not the time to be talking about legislation.
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In Europe and in other places, they use
vehicles to mow down crowds at parades
— where they’ve done that here at the
United States. It’s not the weapon,
it’s the underlying problem.
Mike Johnson, October 27, 2023, a day after
a shooter in Lewiston, Maine, killed 18 and
wounded 13 in 2023's 565th mass shooting
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What's the use …
of buying a Corvette
and hiring a chauffeur to drive it?
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Wretched excess
The bleak, beetle-backed monster
parked in the courtyard of the hotel
lays claim to being the new fastest,
most powerful, most expensive
road car ever produced by a
global auto maker.
Those numbers, should you want to
forward them to your accountant
in Macau: about 285 mph;
1,500 horsepower; $3 million.
Wall Street Journal, April 8–9, 2017,
on the Bugatti Chiron, made by Bugatti,
part of Germany's VW Group
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Wretched excess
Home car turntables
so you never have to
back out of the garage
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Wretched excess
There's an optional £150,000 clock
for Bentley's £160,000 Bentayga SUV
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