Thread: VFACTS Feb 2025
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Old 11-03-2025, 11:21 AM   #55
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Default Re: VFACTS Feb 2025

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Originally Posted by jpd80 View Post
I’ll give him this, driving around in the city gives one a good feel of the general sizes and shapes of vehicles
owned but some of the finer details like 3-row vs 2-row SUVs is sometimes hard to pin down.

Astounding just how many single occupants in vehicles in the daily commute traffic.
Actually, if you sit at a school at am/pm drop off/pickup you see how many kids get into different vehicles so its fairly obvious, for example, that an suv is 3 row if 4 kids get in with Mum and Dad.
What you also see, whilst sitting at lights etc. as you travel around in those peak periods, is how many people are in vehicles next to you and, unfortunately, what the driver is being distracted by on their phones.

No, its not an exact science but its probably a better gauge than you'll get anywhere else without running a survey.

Try sitting in a 75 seat coach full of kids fresh from their brekky sugar rush whilst you wait for Joanne Bloggs to move out of the school bus setdown whilst she drops off her 1 little darling in her full size SUV.

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