According to a Stanford University study, your car can tell a lot about your political views. One need only look at the make and model of car. The fact that some cars are specific to a certain type of community. It is on these observations and based research. However, the results are impressive, in spite of the external simplicity.
Researchers said the goal was to determine the cars prevailing in a particular city, the results of the upcoming elections. All were analyzed 200 cities and 50 million images of vehicles in these cities, taken from Google Street View.
When sedans were quantitatively superior to pickups, 88% of scientists gave a guarantee that the city will vote for Democrats. And Vice versa, where pick-up was dominated by residents with 82% probability, according to scientists, will vote for the Republicans.
The researchers also tracked the relationship between the brand, model and year of every car sold in the U.S. since 1990, with a particular social group. The study showed that Volkswagen and Aston Martin popping in «white» neighborhoods and African American neighborhoods are typical Chrysler, Buick and Oldsmobile.
The results of the analysis, scientists believe, will help politicians to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, by identifying in advance the territory of residence of their key constituencies, especially during the campaign, according to the principle «from door to door.»
