A decision to replace or scrap a vehicle is a complicated one, especially in the presence of an active secondary market and government interventions. This section introduces the complexities of this household decision making process.
A household that owns and/or leases a certain number of vehicles at a particular point in time has to make replacement or scrappage decisions for the stochastic depreciation of vehicle qualities over time and the mismatch between the service provided by vehicles and the household’s travel demand. The replacement and scrappage decision involves determining the timing of an action, which subset of vehicles to sell and who to sell to, what types of vehicles should be bought, if any, for replacements and where to buy, which subset of vehicles should be scrapped and where to send the vehicles for scrappage, the level of maintenance effort (including repairs) on the new replacement(s) and existing inventories to commit in the future. Naively assuming the preference of vehicles are separable from other consumption goods, the optimized choice set should yield the highest expected utility over the interested period of household with income and household traveling demand constraints.
The timing of vehicle replacement and scrappage can be either exogenous or endogenous. It is an exogenous decision when households have to react to shocks like car accidents that lead to sudden decreases of car quality or even the “death” of cars. On the other hand, the
Normal accidents are very closely linked to risk society. As our culture takes on new, more advanced technologies and
vehicle collisions yearly, according to Kristof’s projections (Kristof 161). This is exponentially greater than the 30,000 who are killed in car accidents today, after these regulations were
In 1914, Henry Ford transformed the entire world by manufacturing bulk of automobiles and these automobiles completely changed our way of travelling. They became an integral part of our society and we all are dependent upon them. But the way coin has two sides there are pros and cons of automobiles. The economic cost of manufacturing and owing a vehicle can be ignored but there are various global effects which affect our everyday life and can’t be ignored. Few of them are environmental impact, noise pollution, emission of greenhouse gases, congestion from road infrastructure etc. But the most stunning effect is the economic and social burden caused by accidents and fatalities. In 1999 alone about 750,000 people died globally in road related
Bodily Injury: No matter what type of motor vehicle accident, it is important for victims to be properly
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TRUCK ACCIDENTS | INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS | PRODUCT LIABILITY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE WRONGFUL DEATH | POLICE MISCONDUCT
For the past 24 years of my life I have been an employee of a company called Chrysler Financial which operated as the captive financial arm for an automobile manufacturing company known as Chrysler Group LLC (Chrysler Motors) until April of 2009. Chrysler Motors is one of the big three American automobile companies that manufactures several types of vehicles which are sold not only in the United States but also worldwide. The brands of vehicles Chrysler Motors manufactures are as follows: Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and the recently added fourth brand for their truck line named the Ram. Aside from manufacturing vehicles, MOPAR, which is short for Motors and Parts, is the automobile parts,
In Superfreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner demonstrate many examples that small changes can affect the whole situation. One of the problems that are solved in the book was the high death rate for automobile accidents. Levitt and Dubner mentions,“Nearly 40,000 people died in U.S. traffic accidents in 1950. That’s
The demand for cars is subject to strong fluctuations. During the year, sales tend to increase in spring and droop in winter. Most importantly,
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the most common reasons people died were accidents
There had been more than 200 deaths in Ford Explorer rollovers by November 2011. The reason was believed to be the faulty tires which was supplied by Ford’s main supplier, Bridgestone/ Firestone. The first ones to witness those tragedies were the consumers, via videotapes and still images. They didn’t know who they should point fingers at, but there were ample lawsuits and investigations.
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