Who came up with the national average of 12,000 miles per car??...how can this possibly be true....?

Question

i mean when you break that down. it averages to about 32 miles per day and unless most people live right next to their job or dont work. how can that be humanly possible.. i know there are some areas that dont do a lot of driving. but there is no way this can be the average. .. i mean even on weekends people go places. .. it just seems to be pure BS to me.

Answer 1

I can't say for sure, but I would think the leasing companies had a lot to do with it. Very few people drive 12,000 miles per year or less, and the companies know it.

They have you by the you-know-what either way. If you want more miles, you pay up front. If you go over the miles, you pay at the end. If you're under the miles, you get nothing.

Those extra miles mean extra bucks in their pockets, and a lot of them.

Answer 2

I BELIEVE THAT THE AVERAGE IS 15,000 MILES.

Answer 3

I've been asking the same question for years! My average is 18k and i work less then 5 miles from home!

Answer 4

It's a NATIONAL average.  It takes into account all the people that live in New York or San Francisco and take public transportation to work and only use their cars on weekends, all the high school students that walk to school and use their cars for after school activities, college students in dorms who walk to class and use their cars only to go off campus, etc.

Answer 5

the national safety board are the ones responsible for coming up with this,,we all know its not right though ,but they do this on an average not everyone drives a lot,so they just use an average,like me for instance i drive less than 4 thousand miles a year,because my shop is also at my house,and a lot of other people don't drive much either,that's how the come up with an average though,good luck.