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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @07:43PM (2 children)
> They're all grandparents now and watched their children lose their wealth through theft in the 2008 engineered financial disaster.
I'm old enough to be a grand parent, but chose to not have kids. Back in the '70s there were plenty of clues that things weren't getting better on many fronts. Humanity was well established as the dominant species on earth, and stupidly (imo) continued to multiply. So that was one of the several reasons for my choice.
You can thank me for a few less competitors in your life, not that it will make much difference.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday July 12 2020, @01:26AM (1 child)
I'm 20 years behind you but made the same choice. We keep waiting for some magic solution, solar panels or cold fusion or whatever, but the driving issue is population. In the context of this story, it doesn't matter if millennials drive 8% less when they are 126% of GenX population or 119% of Boomer population. They need to triple that amount of not-driving just to maintain the status quo.
https://knoema.com/infographics/egyydzc/us-population-by-age-and-generation-in-2020 [knoema.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @04:11AM
you need a different system than capitalism