For so long it was thought that millennials were content to lives without cars, and now it appears they cannot live without them.
A new study shows that half of millennials would rather give up social media for a week than go without their cars. Additionally, 41% would give up an hour of sleep each day and 39% would skip a meal before giving up their vehicles.
Enterprise, the rental car company, polled millennials to determine how strongly they felt about the possibility of going without a car for an extended period of time, such as if it were in for repair. What the company discovered is that millennials are just like most folks: they feel they need their vehicles.
“It turns out that drivers would go to great extremes to maintain access to a vehicle,” said Mary Mahoney, vice president North American insurance replacement division for Enterprise.
Some of the other insights revealed by the survey include:
- More than half of millennials (52%) admit that if they lost access to their vehicle for an extended period of time, they’d be forced to beg their friends and family members for rides
To read more of the original article, go to The Detroit Bureau.
