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[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They certainly don't help but according to this, the spike is related to smartphones not trucks/SUVs

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That scale though. You could stretch or squeeze any data to fit a curve like that.

[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The data is linked in the post

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's still a bad way of presenting it.