Just 77 percent of Americans age-old 16 to 44 captivated drivers licenses in 2014, down from 82 percent in 2008 and 92 percent in 1983. The allotment of Americans with driver’s licenses beneath beyond every age accumulation from 2011 to 2014, according to an assay by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Busline Analysis Institute.
Several factors accept led to beneath accountant drivers, including a abridgement of absorption a part of adolescent consumers in active or owning a car, a accepted acknowledgment to cities and abutting suburbs with reliable accessible transportation, a acceleration in telecommuting, and the appearance of ride-sharing casework like ZipCar and on-demand taxis like Uber. Tighter restrictions on adolescent drivers haven’t helped either.
The addition of driverless cars, which some industry experts say will be on anchorage aural the next decade, promises to added abate the allotment of Americans who feel the charge to get a driver’s license.
The aftereffect of beneath accountant disciplinarian is that the accumulated amount of afar apprenticed has plateaued over the accomplished decade, according to analysis from the Brookings Institute.
That may be bad account for automakers and the gasoline industry, but it’s acceptable account for drivers themselves. The 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard from the Texas A&M Busline Institute begin that drivers ashen added than 3 billion gallons of ammunition and spent 7 billion added hours sitting in cartage endure year, at a amount of $160 billion, or $960 per commuter.
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