Regarding the dog, I'm just pointing out something that currently doesn't work for me. Until they fix it I don't care - right now their solution does not help me and nobody has done anything to address it.
My point is simple. Right now owning a car is better than not owning a car for me. Until that changes I will want to own a car. If you don't want to own a car then good for you - different people have different desires.
A teenager doesn't just "want a car." He wants that freedom that car gives him... to go somewhere without bugging his parents or friends for a ride. If you're in a big city or someplace where this is not the norm, I could see you believing otherwise.
(And I laughed at "guaranteed clean." Right. All that means is you get a refund when you find the dog turd in the back seat.)
Precisely, and this is why owning the car isn't that important. This teenager presumably still has to pay for the car and fuel, or bug his parents for it. Paying for the (cheaper) self driving ride is no different.
It is different. If you're relying on someone (or something) else, waiting around, you're not "independent."
Really, this doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
You might have noticed that people are hoarding a lot of stuff, that are of little value to them. It's probably an intrinsic value to most people to own things. It might vary a little between cultures, but it seems to be a common trait.
If you don't - great for you.
However. It might happen that you one day walk by a car on display in a mall, and notices the nice paint, a practical laptop holder, the particularly nice storage boxes for diapers and what not, and thinks to yourself - "I want that car."
And I was just pointing out that your personal experiences with today's ride sharing aren't relevant to a hypothetical discussion of an unrelated future transport technology.
I'm defensive because you're continually derailing a thread about futuretech to list your personal experiences with todaytech. I don't get why you derail this conversation to make it emotional and personal, so I get defensive about the track of the conversation of solving tomorrow's problems. Stop taking it personally, think bigger! Solve a problem!
I literally did share a solution in this post, and the one before.
- Commoditize storage and transport it to you on demand
- Offer pet friendly cars
Boom. Solved.
As I also wrote: "I'm sure you could come up with a better solution if you tried."
Is this hackernews, where builders come to talk about exciting ways they're solving tomorrow's problems?
Am I on the wrong site?
You haven't solved anything until you've demonstrated a working solution. If it were so easy to fix problems in the real world, politicians would have our economy constantly booming, there would be more jobs than people, and the Middle East would be the most peaceful place on Earth.
Anyway, I don't think we're going to agree on anything. I'm exiting this thread.
By the same standard uber as a whole is not a working solution.
Yes I did point out that most Americans and many people are conditioned from birth to value car ownership, even when it's a poor financial decision.
"Perfect example where Uber fails - I can't take my dog anywhere
As I told the other guy: Stop predicting failure based on problems, put on your creator and builder hat, and solve the problem.
Why not have pet friendly vehicles available at a small charge, guaranteed clean?
It bothers me that these problems are so easy to solve and yet people are so willing to write off a future possible technology without so much as thinking through any of the solutions.