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Re:General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Mic... by talmand on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:49AM (#12920775)
Your experiences doesn't necessarily equal that of millions of other people. Owning a vehicle for part time driving and Uber for everything else is likely not very cost effective for many, if not most people. Never mind the assumption that Uber, or something like it, exists everywhere.

Not intended as an insult, but that's city thinking.

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Re:General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Mic... by scld on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:58PM (#12971452)
It's certainly city thinking, I agree. However, if the demand for personal vehicle ownership in cities drops but stays level in suburban and rural areas, the overall demand still drops (or, perhaps, doesn't grow in the next decade).

I guess my point was that personal ownership of small cars will be the first to decline as self-driving and service-based (Uber and the like) car use increases.

The SUV/Truck car market I believe will last a little bit longer because a large part of the use of those things is for transportation and storage of personal belongings as well as numerous children, which Uber/Lyft don't cater as easily to.

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Re:General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Mic... by pavel_lishin on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:10PM (#12924378)
I don't know what city he's living in if that's city thinking. Owning a car, and paying for an Uber equivalent as your regular commute seems like the most expensive and annoying option you could pick, short of using a horse and letting it live in your living room.
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