According to Ebtekar, at least 1.25m obsolete cars were still in use in Tehran and 60% of cars in the city normally carry just one person.
In Long Beach, a July auction of obsolete cars, trucks, vans, police cars and beach jeeps made more than $25,000 for the city.
The new owner had no interest in selling obsolete cars, but it did want Jeep and the all-wheel-drive technology of Eagle.
More than 2,500 obsolete subway cars -- including 1,269 of the classic ocher-hued Redbird cars -- were packed up, shipped out and then, with a splash, dropped into silent graves at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere off the coasts of six states up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Outside, in a neglected corner of the yard, there was a pile of aluminium body panels discarded from obsolete racing cars, ready to be scrapped whenever someone got round to it.
There are good new technologies, like real-time bus arrival apps, that help, more than new ways to order that obsolete thing: a car to get you where you don't need a car to go.
They may render big chunks of the capital stock obsolete: many idle car factories, for example, may never reopen.
To ensure that the growing array of electronics — controlling anything from navigation systems to sophisticated antilock brakes — do not become obsolete before the car's first oil change, engineers are creating vehicles that can adapt to new technologies and are flexible enough to accommodate unforeseen future developments.
Regulation changes for the 2011 season rendered the RS Spyder obsolete but the car has left a legacy in the Porsche 918, which uses a development of the Spyder's engine and the 919 which carried Porsche's racing program on into the LMP 1 category starting in 2014.
To essentially render private cars obsolete.
