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by gdilla 992 days ago
800 parking spots per car in the US.
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Does "800 parking spots per car" pass the sniff test?

There's order of magnitude 1 car per US resident. Does it seem like there are 800 parking spots per US resident? A quarter of a trillion total parking spots?

I doubt my car parks in 800 unique places (including different street parking spots as unique) in a given year.

On the smaller end, call each space 16'x8'. That puts a little more than 2% of the entire land mass of the US as parking spaces (assuming I didn't get any of the exponents wrong).

Source? A quick Google turns up 8 as a common number, not 800.
Perhaps if you accept that freeways function as parking spots during major traffic jams...