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Every day in the United States, a large number of cars are being produced. Most of these cars never get sold to customers because people just can’t afford them.
by ip26 2y ago
Every day in the United States, a large number of cars are being produced. Most of these cars never get sold to customers because people just can’t afford them.
Oh yes, that makes perfect sense, every day they make 100 cars and then scrap more than 50 of them.
The car manufacturing industry can’t stop producing new automobiles because they would have to close their factories and lay off thousands of their workers.
Right, layoffs, that never happens.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoYeah, I thought the actual premise was interesting (I'm sure there is a good amount of unsold inventory that is recycled/destroyed/etc., just like in any goods industry) and was interested to learn more about the mechanics of the process, but that article was just ridiculous - 0 actual numbers and it felt like it was written by a third grader.
- bluGill 2y agoLayoffs do happen, but they are hard to do because the auto makers are selling some cars. The factory works at one speed, and so if they sell 100 cars but make 200 what can they do. The above is why companies try to do just in time manufacturing. However this is always easier on paper than the real world. Those factories need to shutdown for a week-several months every year to repair tools and rearrange for the next model year, and they need some cars saved up for that. In addition other disasters mean sometimes they can't get parts and so there is more reason to have a buffer of unsold cars.
- throwaway48476 2y agoSometimes car manufacturers overproduce and you can see giant fields of cars on satellite imagery.