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Originally Posted by Pandaf
Here it was mentioned recently in the papers that for the first time people start to drive less because of gas prices. For years the average annual distance driven per car was around 13.000 km, now it is reducing. However people mostly skip the visits to relatives so the writer of the article got worried over lonely grannies sitting and waiting for (grand)children that do not visit anymore....Sad as that may be....on my daily commute I mostly see cars with only one occupant....Huge potential in cost savings there (personal experience).
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A recent article in the NY Times had this graph:
Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts - Graphic - NYTimes.com
Showing car safety (deaths per 100k people) vs miles driven per capita for the USA. Miles per capita have been slowly decreasing since 2004. It's not the only decrease, but it is the only decrease of more than a few years.