Re:Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency – Low←Tech Magazine
by steveBK123 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:48PM
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Production numbers are also imperfect as a measure of use.
Cars are more durable and last longer than cars as recently as 2000.
Product cycles have also widened such that a 5yr old car looks closer to the latest models than old&dated.
It's easy to imagine that this growth will continue to fill any capacity thrown at it, but that can't hold true ad infinitum, especially that peak car happened in 2017:
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/the-setting...
The Braess paradox is also mostly dead in the age of real-time traffic information. Anyone taking an Uber can see for themselves the sometimes weird paths they take - all because it's truly faster this way with real-time data.