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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Motoring => Topic started by: Surferdude on September 03, 2010, 00:20:02
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I was leafing through an old (Dec 2009) Wheels magazine yesterday and found some interesting little snippets I thought I might share with you.
2008 Road Toll Figures
India 109,721
China 94,328
USA 43,242
Brazil 35,987
Russia 33,808
Iran 23,497
Australia 1,464
Sort of puts into perspective some of those YouTube vids from China and India doesn't it?
And, although they're a little out of date some new car sales figures from October 2009.
October 2009 YTD New Car Sales
Toyota 22.1%
Holden 13.3%
Ford 10.2%
Hyundai 7.8%
Mazda 7.0%
Mitsubishi 5.9%
And Light Car Sales Numbers for the same period
Getz 23.1%
Yaris 16.9%
Swift 11.7%
Mazda 2
Facts and Figures
Avge Annual Distance driven by Aust Pass Cars 13,700 klms
Total Reg. Pass Vehicles in 2007 11,500,000
Total Distance Travelled by Aust Pass Vehicles in 2007 157.6 Billion klms
The equivalent of 18 round trips to Pluto.
We used 30 Billion litres of fuel for an average pass. car figure of 11.5L/100klm
One Final Point
A quote from one of the most famous inventors of all time, Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb, alkaline battery and motion picures and owner of an electric car.
Motor cars are a mere fad. The railway is the future of personal transportaton
Now I ask you. Was he wrong? Or juts looking further into the future than 2010?
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clearly he was wrong LOL i dont see a railway siding out the front of my house!!
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Hi Trev,
Would be interesting exercise to work out those road tolls versus total pop (e.g. per capita)
I think Hyundai has just passed (or is close to passing) Ford now for 3rd spot in Australia...
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Interesting indeed. Didn't realise Toyota had such a big jump on Holden and Ford. 'Did you have something to do with this Dazzler..; :lol:
Do think railway could have a much greater impact on personal transport than what it it does though. Edison may be right if we look further into the future. I find it hard to believe it will be sustainable to continue driving motor cars.
Railway should have a much bigger role to play even now for the transport of freight, certainly in our country, the use of B Doubles and talk of B Triples is alarming you only need to look at the accelerated deterioration of the roads since they allowed these monsters greater access. Don't misunderstand I know we need them on the road as this is the only effective currently way to transport our freight but the infrastructure that we call railway really needs looking at. (sorry don't mean to go on.. :rolleyes:)
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we used to load rail cars up at my work... infact the rail load out bays are still in use and have railway line in the yard under them... but the government shut the line down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkenba_railway_station,_Brisbane
we still load containers for rail transport... just they get loaded on trucks, then transported to the rail facilities by trucks...
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According to Peter F Hamilton, railways are the future - even travelling through wormholes. :cool:
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I just did the exercise of working out annual road fatalities per capita (head of population) using estimates from this site..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
The higher the number in the 4th column the better... Surprising results in some cases.. (let me know if I stuffed up the calculations :wink:)
Country Annual Road Deaths 2010 Pop estimate Number of people per annual road deaths
India 109,721 1,187,130,000 10,819
China 94,328 1,339,270,000 14,198
USA 43,242 310,152,000 7,172
Brazil 35,987 193,453,000 5,375
Russia 33,808 141,927,297 4.198
Iran 23,497 75,078,000 3,195
Australia 1,464 22,446,272 15,363
The number of cars o the road per head of pop would go some way to explaining the figure in China I imagine.. (and maybe India too)