young people trying hardest what does that mean for the economy what speak with the atlantic jordan weissmann the great. issues that so much of. which are. going to leave you with the rivals occupy wall street protesters are coming out of their winter hibernation with plans to review demonstrations six months. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry. from the big picture to lead to a. bigger player. well used to be if there were a few clear cut signs it was becoming an adult getting closer to achieving that goal american dream and that included buying a house but that came after a car these days however things are changing and young people seem to be losing interest in cars gordon gartner research forty six percent of drivers aged eighteen and twenty four said that they would she was internet access over owning a car according to the federal highway administration and two thousand and eight forty six point three

with the recession or car culture isn't just not appealing to today's youth disconsolately is jordan weissmann associate editor at the atlantic thanks so much for joining us ok so obviously if you look at the statistics something is changing it's happening so you know in your mind what are the factors that were contributing to this well there are two stories going on here there's one you can see is strictly economic it's just the recession what's happened to young people unemployment for people in their twenty's and then there's a cultural story and you know that we're trying to do is reach a bigger road which is which is more important here is that people just don't care about cars or is it that you know they can't afford it and you know you have the statistics about the percentage of young people that are now purchasing new vehicles or the percentage of new vehicle to purchase a young people and one of these i went and looked at to see you know is this they're just looking to save money or is it that they really just don't feel they need it was how you were going to be used car market and i