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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by kortilla on Friday November 22, 2019 @05:11AM (#21604321)
Right, but if you’re willing to rent, might as well just rent a truck on demand. At this point you’ve shifted the goal posts to, “why do people buy things and underutilize them instead of renting on demand”?

Why have a guest room when there are hotels you can send visitors to?

Why have a 4 door car that incurs most of its mileage in a commute with 1 or 2 people?

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by pixelbash on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:07AM (#21604548)
Well, here at least trailers are rented because you can pick up a trailer at the gas station at zero notice. Renting a truck is a little bit different.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by DennisP on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:25AM (#21604920)
Where is "here?" I've never seen trailers available to rent at gas stations.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by unicornporn on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:19PM (#21610188)
Here in Sweden they're available at most bigger gas stations.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by DennisP on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:59PM (#21610568)
That's a sensible way to do things. In the U.S. I haven't seen it; maybe that's partly why pickup trucks are more popular here.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by pixelbash on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:23PM (#21623878)
New Zealand
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by jhbadger on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:27AM (#21605337)
I don't think most people have guest rooms on purpose. More often those are the rooms kids lived in before they left home and then the rooms get repurposed.
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