Re:Scale Ruins Everything
by DrScientist on Monday October 21, 2024 @06:11AM
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> Plus it is a distraction from their business. They will instead sell to others who offer that service.
Possibly. However you could also see the Uber type market as reducing the need for people to buy cars - threatening their core business, as well as reducing the number of their potential customers and again shifting the power away from them.
I doubt it. Except a few on the fringe most get rid of the car anyway a personal car isn't much more expensive. sure if you drive new cars it might work out but the average car is 12 years old and nobody who's image depends on their car is going to acept that quality which means the cars you hire will be expensive to attract them.
Generally shared cars only make sense when someone drives very little anyway. Cars are expensive and so shared cars are either too expensive to be used often, or very hard to get at. Renting a car for a weekend is about half the cost of a monthly payment on the same car, but if you buy the car you have it the rest of the month (and if you buy a car you have used options or keeping the car after it is paid for to bring the total cost down - you will have to pay maintenance costs but those tend to be much less).