• @pilotmanOP
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    164 months ago

    TIL that NZ has the highest car ownership in the world.

  • @liv
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    154 months ago

    I misread the title and came in thinking it was about cats. I think we have a high proportion of those as well.

    Solved it. Cats cause cars.

  • @DaveMA
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    124 months ago

    We have many small cities with nothing between them, very little intercity rail services, and an easy source of cheap second hand cars. I’m surprised we are first but I would have put money on top 10.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      I’d say it’s very similar in Poland. A lot of small cities and villages, barely connected by roads and with little to no rails. Public transport is good but only in big cities. In those smaller ones, you’re lucky if there’s more than on bus per line per hour.
      This is my firsthand experience, as I’m from one of those. 15 years ago there was a bus every 15-20 minutes. Nowadays there’s one per hour, sometimes less.

    • @BalpeenHammer
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      44 months ago

      Even if you never traveled between cities the public transportation is dismal.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    4 months ago

    I’m honestly surprised that the US is in second, off the top of my head I only know one person that doesn’t own a car but her boyfriend has one that they share.

  • @Ilovethebomb
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    44 months ago

    Something that brings that average up, in my view, is the number of classic cars we have on the road. These are vehicles that don’t do a lot of driving, but are technically in use.

    There’s also a lot of people, especially trades, that have company vehicles that they can’t use for personal use, so they also have their own vehicle.

    • @liv
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      64 months ago

      Why would we have more classic cars than other countries though?

        • @liv
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          34 months ago

          Just realized your username is about cars!

            • @liv
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              4 months ago

              Good movie, but still. I want it to be about either cars or a type of diving off wharves.

  • ColonialSpore
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    24 months ago

    A win is a win. Embrace it.

    Aaaaaaand, we’re still first on Everest.