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Why wouldn't a family have three cars in the garage? One for you, one for you spouse and the one for the kids to get to school or soccer practice or even their
by TheCondor 9y ago
Why wouldn't a family have three cars in the garage? One for you, one for you spouse and the one for the kids to get to school or soccer practice or even their friend's house to play after school? Sure it's "inefficient" but the time efficiency of having a car ready to bring them home the instant you call has a premium value to many. if you take the driving out of the equation, I expect the average car becomes dramatically less expensive, performance is purely there for human emotions. Lower the car price and we will simply buy more
there are lots of places where people don't take public transportation now, why is that going to change? So long as work schedules are similar and eating times are similar it seems like there is a queue theory problem with your community pool.
- Fricken 9y agoI've got to make sure I've got my shoes and jacket on before calling an Uber it arrives so fast, it actually saves time because I don't have to deal with parking.
- wklauss 9y agoReal estate prices are one reason. The other is that your waiting time for a shared self-driving car will be almost nothing (around 5 min?), specially in suburban areas. Keep in mind that is very likely that your kids will go to school on a self driving bus, in any case.
- frankc 9y agoI hear what your saying but can't you use the same logic with bathrooms? Sure, we could all get by with 1 bathroom. Hell, we can get by with just communal bathrooms. But it turns out it's nice to have the luxury of not sharing things, even with your family. It's nice to be able to customize things the way you want. I will buy the argument that people will give up personal car ownership when I start to see people give up having personal bathrooms.