Originally Posted by
cabledawg
I think to make a better statistic, you'd have to stick with ten years or less. I mean if I wanted to do so, I could compare teens with driver's licenses from 1930 to now. It would probably show a huge incline and I could say that cars were more popular now than they were back then. I'm just saying that 1983 to now is a huge gap in time and doesnt prove much.
Certainly how you slice the pie chart is going to give you a different viewpoint. Since 1930 we would see a huge increase and in the last 10 years a decrease. That decrease is fueled partly the economy, but guessing other factors play in here. The phenomenon is not only in the US either. That Japanese, for example, are seeing low rates of car ownership among their young and its a concern for their car manufacturers.