Re:An End to Parking?
by ars on Friday January 22, 2016 @03:20PM
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You did clear it up, except relatively rare does not mean that.
You can't make up new definitions for things and expect people to understand you.
Relatively rare has the same meaning as rare, except that it's rare only in comparison with the compared event, but might not be rare on an absolute scale.
So, no, 49% is not relatively rare.
1% is relatively rare, yet 1% of car trips is still an enormous number so is not actually rare. That is the only change in the meaning when you add the word relatively.
Getting back to your actual point, which was derailed by an incorrect word.
Multi car trips are less common, but not enough to make single passenger vehicles economically worth it. The majority of the expense on a vehicle is not the cabin. Once you paid to make a car, adding a bit more space for additional people costs only a little bit more, but greatly increases the flexibility.
So I don't expect the basic size of a car to change much.
You can't make up new definitions for things and expect people to understand you.
Relatively rare has the same meaning as rare, except that it's rare only in comparison with the compared event, but might not be rare on an absolute scale.
So, no, 49% is not relatively rare.
1% is relatively rare, yet 1% of car trips is still an enormous number so is not actually rare. That is the only change in the meaning when you add the word relatively.
Getting back to your actual point, which was derailed by an incorrect word.
Multi car trips are less common, but not enough to make single passenger vehicles economically worth it. The majority of the expense on a vehicle is not the cabin. Once you paid to make a car, adding a bit more space for additional people costs only a little bit more, but greatly increases the flexibility.
So I don't expect the basic size of a car to change much.