Durchschnittliches Fahrzeugalter in den USA durch den Kongressbezirk [OC]
Von Alarmed_Wish3294
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Durchschnittliches Fahrzeugalter in den USA durch den Kongressbezirk [OC]
Von Alarmed_Wish3294
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Accidentally deleted it lmao
Imagine this map without Cash for Clunkers in 2009
Mind sharing your methodology of how you aggregated census data to the congregational district level? As I understand it, census data is already an average age, so are you averaging averages or creating a weighted average? This could be a possible pitfall in your data.
Pretty cool! Montana (my home state) looks like it has way older cars on average, but I would bet that’s because we have antique tags that don’t need renewals and no sales tax; so people from other states come here to register their classic cars.
I’m going to point out that this map strongly resembles the map of locations that have summer grade fuel (and in many cases, emissions testing). Emissions testing could force older cars off the road bringing the average age of the fleet in that area down. Furthermore, this could drive the average age of used cars in adjacent areas down.
Summer grade fuel map – https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11031
… and also as noted /r/PeopleLiveInCities (which also is related to the emissions testing).
What is happening in that spot in Oklahoma?
This must be a near perfect correlation with income…?
What about the 7-7.9 year old cars?
Proud member of the dark red category here! The avg age of my registered/insured vehicles is 22
I’m convinced the heat and humidity in Houston just cooks cars. Plus, we do a ton of driving. But having said that, my car is 10 years old and my husband’s is 16 years old. But we have pretty short commutes compared to a lot of Houstonians.
Other than income, I’d be curious to see how this correlates with humidity levels. MA has high humidity summers and salty roads all winter which leads to so much rust in our cars.
I think part of the explanation for the Northeast is that the weather up here kills cars. We get hot humid summers and cold snowy winters, and there’s a lot of road salt.
I suspect that vehicle inspection requirements have a lot to do with it also.
Does „vehicles“ include farm equipment or does it focus more on personal vehicles?
As someone in an 8.0-8.9 county, this blows my mind!
Correlating this to states that have regular inspection requirements would be interesting.