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People won't stay signed up for it for very long. > Throw a streaming camera in the car, and require a credit card on file, and they can trash the inside of my

People won't stay signed up for it for very long. > Throw a streaming camera in the car, and require a credit card on file, and they can trash the inside of my car all they want, they are just paying for the cleaning or new interior. You might want to think this one through a bit more carefully. One dude hides a joint in his back pocket, and now your car smells like weed. Another accidentally sat on a piece of gum earlier, and now part of it is stuck to your seat. When do you notice? How do you decide who is at fault, or when to start a credit card dispute? You will have a dozen random people using your car every day, very few malicious, but none with any interest in taking care of it beyond not trashing it. Taking care of "your" car will become a full-time job. EDIT (slow-ban reply): Fair enough. Plenty of people have rental properties. I think it seems like an enormous hassle, but it can apparently be a decent living or side-hustle, so I could be wrong about cars.

Klathmon 9y ago
And again every single one of those scenarios happens every day with uber and lyft, and they still have a massive number of drivers working for the service every day. I don't really want to get into an internet argument on the details of how uber and lyft work, but most of those things are easily solvable right now in-app with the click of a button, and I've personally seen the "difficulty" of having to take a few photos of what the last rider did to your car, upload it in-app, and have the company pay for repairs/cleaning in the span of a day or 2. None of this is "impossible" to solve, and I could absolutely see the future of cars being less of "this is my car" and more of "i'm buying this as an investment" similar to how some people buy and rent housing, especially 50 or 100 years from now.
Klathmon 9y ago
FYI you can (almost) always get around the "slow reply" limitation by clicking on the age of the comment which brings you to a new page where you can normally comment. Although I believe the moderation is more strict for comments that do that, as the whole point of the reply throttling is to prevent low-effort angry replies.

Klathmon 9y ago

And again every single one of those scenarios happens every day with uber and lyft, and they still have a massive number of drivers working for the service every day. I don't really want to get into an internet argument on the details of how uber and lyft work, but most of those things are easily solvable right now in-app with the click of a button, and I've personally seen the "difficulty" of having to take a few photos of what the last rider did to your car, upload it in-app, and have the company pay for repairs/cleaning in the span of a day or 2. None of this is "impossible" to solve, and I could absolutely see the future of cars being less of "this is my car" and more of "i'm buying this as an investment" similar to how some people buy and rent housing, especially 50 or 100 years from now.

Klathmon 9y ago

FYI you can (almost) always get around the "slow reply" limitation by clicking on the age of the comment which brings you to a new page where you can normally comment. Although I believe the moderation is more strict for comments that do that, as the whole point of the reply throttling is to prevent low-effort angry replies.