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posted by martyb on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-you-gonna-get-there? dept.

Millennials drive for 8% fewer trips than older generations:

we surveyed 2,225 American adults of all ages. On average millennials drive for 8% fewer of their typical weekly trips than baby boomers or Gen Xers.

Moreover, this difference does not disappear when we control for demographic information, proving that millennial behavior is not just about being young, single and low-income. Instead, what distinguishes millennials are their attitudes.

Millennials are more pro-environment than previous generations and less likely to believe driving gives them independence. They also see driving as more dangerous and want a travel mode that offers side benefits such as exercise or the ability to read or use social media.

The generational difference has profound implications for auto manufacturers.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:46AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:46AM (#1019399)

    When they can afford to. Quite a few of them realize that you can get a lot more independence outside the city for a lot less than your monthly rent... *IF* *BIG IF* your job supports working remotely. For those of us whose jobs don't allow remote work, the benefits are much slimmer unless we already have a side business going, in which case you are probably producing something physically and at the demand of your consumers, most of which will be online now, rather than local/storefront purchases, which of course has its own set of tradeoffs depending on where you live. That said, just based on my own experience with ACTUAL boomers (ie 50s-60s kids) most of them still seem to live by the same attitudes as their parents because not enough of them got laid off or stabbed in the back by employers to realize what a shitshow the modern corporate workplaces are, or even most of the small businesses. For every good business there is out there there are at least 5 violating every law they are supposed to be obeying, and most of those fall squarely on the employees to either notify about or uphold. Getting in, getting paid, and gtfoing before the shit hits the fan seems to be the norm for the millenial and late gen-x kids, most of whom hate their jobs unless they're full kool aid drinkers.

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by c0lo on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:58AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:58AM (#1019402) Journal

    Actually a lot of them ARE moving that way...

    Good for them. That's the only way what you call "SJW" and "deplorables" are going to reconcile their values.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @08:53AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @08:53AM (#1019430)

      Steady on, a majority still voted for Scotty deplorable Morrison.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 11 2020, @09:25AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 11 2020, @09:25AM (#1019438) Journal

        a majority still voted for Scotty deplorable Morrison.

        I don't find reasons (yet) to be totally unhappy, I'll settle with that if I can't get better.

        At least ScoMo is still better than Tony-ultra-deplorable-Abbot and, for "politics, the art of the possible" reasons, better even than Malcolm-almost-non-deplorable-Turnbull.
        At least ScoMo was lucky that the National-deplorable-Party got past its hysterical stage with Barnaby-hillbilly-Joyce losing voice (after playing with his dick [wikipedia.org])

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