The rise of the disposable car
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The rise of the disposable car
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#3For a humorous and oddly interesting YouTube view on what happens to bad engines in cars, see the I Do Cars YouTube channel. Come for the oil starvation, stay for the newly installed inspection ports. On a good day, he'll get some parts to sell from each core. He also occasionally goes through the process of pulling usable parts from an entire junked car.
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#4https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...
The opposite. With cars reaching much more advanced ages today, when a collision happens it's a write-off.
The modern car isn't 'disposable'. In fact, all statistics point to us holding onto cars longer today than ever before. Today's cars are the most durable that they've ever been.
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#5Tangential but related:
There are full parking lots with brand new cars that go under press or get disassembled for parts because dealership don’t want sell them at a cheaper prices.
https://www.costulessdirect.com/blog/where-brand-new-unsold-...
From article:
> the unsold cars that are older than two years old, will have no alternative but to be either crushed, dismantled and/or their parts recycled. Want to see for yourself? Do a quick search on Google Maps of Baltimore, Maryland, looking south of Broening Hwy in Dundalk, there you will see a massive expanse of space where many unsold cars are currently parked.
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#6Obviously we need technological development, to keep everyone in a job. What when we cannot maintain or afford those systems? This includes systems of production, as well as the products themselves.
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#7https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera... The opposite. With cars reaching much more advanced ages today, when a collision happens it's a write-off. The modern car isn't 'disposable'. In fact, all statistics point to us holding onto cars longer today than ever before. Today's cars are the most durable that they've ever been.
The OP's article was careful to make this distinction, and I think it's very interesting (as well as being the crucial point of the article). Cars are now more reliable and last longer, but when they do develop a problem, it's less economically viable to repair them.
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#8For a humorous and oddly interesting YouTube view on what happens to bad engines in cars, see the I Do Cars YouTube channel. Come for the oil starvation, stay for the newly installed inspection ports. On a good day, he'll get some parts to sell from each core. He also occasionally goes through the process of pulling usable parts from an entire junked car. https://www.youtube.com/@I_Do_Cars
Yes! Enjoyable and I have learned a lot about how car engines work and are built watching it. And how some companies (cough - Audi - cough) intentionally overengineer their designs so much to boost service and repair cash flows.
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#9I live in Phoenix and now take Waymo regularly, and it seems like we're close to a world in which most people take self-driving cars most of the time, crash rates plummet, and these kinds of articles come to resemble articles from 1910 about horse-related problems.
Humans suck at driving: https://jakeseliger.com/2019/12/16/maybe-cars-are-just-reall...
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#10Tangential but related: There are full parking lots with brand new cars that go under press or get disassembled for parts because dealership don’t want sell them at a cheaper prices. https://www.costulessdirect.com/blog/where-brand-new-unsold-... From article: > the unsold cars that are older than two years old, will have no alternative but to be either crushed, dismantled and/or their parts recycled. Want to see for…
Every day in the United States, a large number of cars are being produced. Most of these cars never get sold to customers because people just can’t afford them.
Oh yes, that makes perfect sense, every day they make 100 cars and then scrap more than 50 of them.
The car manufacturing industry can’t stop producing new automobiles because they would have to close their factories and lay off thousands of their workers.
Right, layoffs, that never happens.