Imagine a world with either wheels or doors. What if you saw one and only one of them, would you be able to tell if it was a door or a wheel? As it turns out, both doors and wheels are objects that have evolved over time. In fact, the door was an important part of the original computer called ENIAC which operated during the 1940s in the United Kingdom. This is why ENIAC is at the heart of our logo with its colorful rows of doors.
If you mean doors and windows, there are more doors than wheels
This is because there are more doors than cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles of transportation. While there are approximately 1 billion vehicles in the world, there are more than 3 billion doors and windows.
The total number of vehicles on Earth is rising every year. In 1980 there were about 500 million vehicles on our planet, but by 2016 this had increased to about 1 billion vehicles. In contrast, the number of doors and windows is not increasing at such a fast rate. It’s estimated that there were around 1 trillion doors and windows in 2010, with this figure rising to around 1.5 trillion in 2016.
There were more horse-drawn carriages than cars in the late 1800’s
The answer is that there are more doors than wheels in the world. We have to go back to the 19th century to see this in action.
The horse-drawn carriage was the dominant form of transportation for centuries, but it was overtaken by the automobile in just a few decades. In 1900, there were about 4 million carriages and wagons in America, compared with only 2 million cars and most of those were electric vehicles or steam-powered cars that could not be called automobiles.
But even though there were more carriages than cars at this time, there were actually more wheels on the roads. According to historian Mark Clifton: An average carriage had four wheels; an average automobile has two wheels; but there were more carriages than automobiles — even though they were much bigger!
It is estimated that there are a total of 1,500,000,000 cars around the world
According to the United Nations, there are about 1.6 billion cars on the road in the world, and that’s about one vehicle for every seven people. The exact number of vehicles varies by country, but the biggest markets are China, the US, Japan and India.
Some countries have more cars than others and in some cases, they have a lot more. In Monaco, there are around 20 times as many cars per capita as in other European countries: But there’s another way to look at this question: How many doors are there in total? If we count each door as an individual car (or truck), then there are more doors than vehicles.
The number of doors in the United States alone is about 300,000,000
The world population is approximately 7,000,000,000 (7 billion). That means that there are approximately 30 times as many doors as people. There are approximately 2800 commercial airplanes flying at any given time. If each plane has 3 pilots, that’s roughly 10,800 pilots. The world has more pilots than it does doors!
There are more than one million species of insects on Earth and most of them have 6 legs or fewer. In other words, there are many more insects than there are people in the world!
The average number of doors per vehicle is 2.6 in the United States
- The average number of doors per vehicle is 2.6 in the United States. In Canada, it’s 2.9.
- In China, it’s 3.1. And in India, it’s 4.4!
- The average number of wheels per vehicle is 3.2 in the United States, 3.0 in Canada and 2.8 in China
It’s not clear why there are such big differences between countries and continents but we do know that there are a lot of cars out there with more than four doors and more than two wheels!
There are more passenger vehicles than commercial vehicles on the road today
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there were about 250 million cars and trucks in the United States in 2011. That number has been growing quickly over the past decade, up from about 210 million in 2000.
Meanwhile, the American Trucking Association says that there were 8.8 million commercial trucks registered in the United States as of 2010 down from 9 million in 2007 and 9.1 million in 2006. The number of commercial vehicles on American roads has been declining steadily since 1999, when it peaked at 10.5 million.
Conclusion
There are two kinds of liars; ones who know they’re lying and ones who don’t. The most infamous in recent memory was Bill Clinton’s ‘I did not have sex with that woman’. Many people thought he was telling the truth, but a few people knew better. Particularly those who followed political news. They knew that he lied and was trying to cover up something pretty bad. To discover what went on behind the scenes during this time, one needs only to research the little details.
