"Black Friday" The fleet issue is critical to the failure of shared cars. The problem of the rich young urbanite traveling a few blocks on a statistically ran

"Black Friday" The fleet issue is critical to the failure of shared cars. The problem of the rich young urbanite traveling a few blocks on a statistically random time frame (bar hopping perhaps) is solved by car sharing services, yet they're a vanishingly small fraction of the population. For example the kind of employer that is so geologic in thinking that they don't allow remote work is going to be so backwards as to forbid flex time hours, so two hundred 9-5 jobs implies someone has to own two hundred individual cars, and if the employees don't directly own the two hundred cars all you get is a useless middleman skimming off profit. Public grade school isn't remote or flex time and observation shows roughly one parent-car per kid. No matter how time flexible life is for rich young adult urbanites, normie life isn't like that. Too much of normie life involves hundreds to tens of thousands of people running on a tight fixed schedule. Back in the bad old days of limited long distance telecom bandwidth, you couldn't financially provision to survive mothers day, for example, so on mothers day people got fast busy signals sometimes. That also made it extremely expensive and encouraged companies to set up their own LD routings. In the long run this will happen with shared cars and after enough firings for failure to get to work and enough CPS calls for failure to pick up little kids people will get tired of the expense of shared cars and save a lot of money by owning their own car.