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by Tade0 80 days ago
There are very few 20yo+ cars on the road, mostly because the probability of a totalling over the course of this many years is pretty high.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/123niq7/ag...

I know for a fact that the figure for Poland is exaggerated, because plenty of cars which are currently shaving people's beards and have been performing this duty for years now remained in the registry and were purged from it only in 2024. That was 7 million out of 41 million originally there and most likely there's many more, as the criteria were set to avoid false positives.