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Title: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: grumbler on November 11, 2014, 11:15:52 AM
Tinkering around with some family auto purchase dates, prompted this 'idea:, take the combined total mileage of every car your parents bought and compare it to the combined mileages of all the cars you and your siblings have owned or leased so far.

What might this tell you if you compared the different generations in you family or across social classes or between different modern countries?

Might this proto-auto metric be of any use to anyone? :unsure:


Incidentally my siblings and I, five living and one dead, overtook our parents, one living, one deceased, at 3:43PM on the 27th of May 1997.
Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Brazen on November 11, 2014, 11:33:24 AM
Is there an app for that?

I barely drive anywhere as I take public transport to work so I doubt I'll notch up a fraction of my parents' lifetime mileage before I am finally sold for scrap.

Beware: Two threads maketh not a meme.
Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Ed Anger on November 11, 2014, 03:12:18 PM
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Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2014, 03:15:57 PM
 :lol:  WTF is that from?
Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Ed Anger on November 11, 2014, 03:18:21 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2014, 03:15:57 PM
:lol:  WTF is that from?

Tim and Eric, one of those stoner shows on Adult Swim.

the show is awful.
Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Martinus on November 11, 2014, 03:34:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 11, 2014, 03:12:18 PM
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Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Monoriu on November 11, 2014, 04:47:00 PM
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Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: Legbiter on November 11, 2014, 06:15:40 PM
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Title: Re: A Possible Automobile Mileage Metric In Search Of Meaning
Post by: CountDeMoney on November 11, 2014, 07:18:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 11, 2014, 03:18:21 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2014, 03:15:57 PM
:lol:  WTF is that from?

Tim and Eric, one of those stoner shows on Adult Swim.

the show is awful.

It certainly appeals to the stoner demo, I'll grant you that.

http://youtu.be/NFTaiWInZ44