Poll: How Many Vehicles Per Licensed Driver In Your Household?
It has been nearly a year and a half since I sold my last car. In that time I’ve managed fine without a car, except for 2 times this year when I rented a vehicle to go out of town. Not having a car has got me thinking about cars I have owned over the 30 years I’ve been driving.
Growing up in suburban Oklahoma City our driveway could hold nine vehicles, with two more in the garage. Pretty consistently we had more than one vehicle per licensed driver. Yes, not a typo — our driveway was 3×3.
I once owned three Volvos at one time, later I owned two Saabs concurrently. Now I don’t have a car, but my boyfriend does. Years ago my personal household had a peak of three vehicles per licensed driver, but now it is 0.5 vehicles per licensed driver. But for the most of the last 25 years on my own I’ve been one driver with one car.
For the poll question the week I’d like to know about the number of vehicles per licensed driver in your current household. The poll is in the right sidebar, I’ll post the results on Wednesday October 2nd.
— Steve Patterson
Define “vehicle”. Does a motorized scooter count? a bicycle? (They all enhance one’s ability to get around, beyond being a pedestrian or relying on public transit.) Until recently, I had four bicycles. I’m now down to one, after donating the three that I rarely used to Bikeworks, a great organization: http://www.bworks.org/bikeworks/
The definition is in the question, a vehicle requiring a licensed driver.
Under state law, a bicycle is considered to be a vehicle and does not require a license to operate. Instead of debating what constitutes a “vehicle”, how about rephrasing the question to ask the number of licensed motor vehicles per driver are in your household?
If I don’t count my husband’s currently (and for the last few years) non-drivable hobby car: 1 car for two licensed drivers.
He means gas-powered things, esp. cars. My answer: One drivable thing (a now-old Rav4). A few dead bicycles no one uses. Two adults, no kids. Used to always have two cars, until one died, the other got totalled and all we had was $3,000 to start over. That was five years ago. Thought life would be impossible. It’s o.k., but it’s hard knowing always that no matter who has the car, someone else doesn’t, esp. when one person goes out of town. We live in a fairly walkable area (if you don’t count groceries) of Kansas City, Missouri, including being able to get to/from work (if we are willing to spend an hour per day on that), but something about car-less-ness feels like being trapped.
What am I missing? One is not an option.
We have two vehicles/two drivers. Don’t know what 2+ vehicles might include. Could it be 2 vehicles plus an old tire left over from a previous vehicle?………not as confusing, though, as whatever in the world 3- vehicles might include. Perhaps two that work, and one sitting in the side yard on concrete blocks?
A household with 2 drivers but 5 cars would be 2.5 vehicles per licensed driver. And yes, these households do exist.
The answer for my family is one. 2 cars, 2 licensed drivers.
2 drivers, 3 cars (2 running), 1 truck, one chopper
4 vehicles for 1 licensed driver. None are work vehicles.