# World vehicle population tops 1 billion

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**Created:** [August 23, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337 "2011-08-23T01:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/1 "2011-08-23T01:01:42Z")

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> **[World vehicle population tops 1 billion](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/18/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/)**
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> One billion. To put such a lofty figure in perspective, let's look at it this way: 1,000,000,000. One with nine zeros. It's gonna take a lot of fingers and toes for us to count that high.

Not sure if that’s 1B produced, or 1B registered/licensed for road use, but over all, that’s 1 car for ever 6 people on the planet.

Also makes you wonder what that #1B car was…

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/2 "2011-08-23T16:19:26Z")

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I think my neighbor has half of them parked in his driveway.

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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/3 "2011-08-23T16:42:38Z")

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I have a neighbor who has the other half parked in his back yard…

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**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/4 "2011-08-23T18:15:39Z")

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Car production worldwide is about 50 million per year and rising fast! The one billion population no doubt includes trucks, since in developing countries small pickup trucks double as family transportation.

I just finished reading a book “Two Bilion Cars” (Oxford University Press, 2009) which goes through the analysis of what we have to do to design and fuels to make that possible. The authors are Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon, with a foreword by Arnold Schwartzenegger. No mention of how to handle domestic maids!

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**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/5 "2011-08-23T23:13:24Z")

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small pickups double as family haulers here in the US as well, not just developing countries.

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/world-vehicle-population-tops-1-billion/67337/6 "2011-08-24T16:25:08Z")

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“No mention of how to handle domestic maids!”

Keep them occupied with a small car.