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> You're reading that wrong. The average age of a licensed car is 12 years. So that means the average age of disposal is 24 years.

I'm repeating verbatim claims from car forums made by people claiming to be automotive engineers who worked for major car manufacturers.

I am talking about claims like this:

> I spent 25 years as an engineer at Rover Group and now work for it's evolved equivalent. Overall, vehicles are designed for a lifetime of 12 years or 120,000 miles and engineering standards are intended to reflect this. this is pretty much standard across the industry.

Tell me how I am reading that wrong.



Lots of people misinterpret reports like

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60882953/average-age-us-c...

It's interesting that cars last pretty much exactly twice as long as the engineer claims they are designed to last.

The design goal is likely something like 95% of cars last 12 years, which means the 50% is much higher than 12.


> Lots of people misinterpret reports like

You seem to be confused. I'm talking about planned service life, whereas you're talking about "misreading reports" that cite car age statistics. Please understand they are not the same thing.


The planned service life of the Mars Rovers were 6 months, but they lasted decades.




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