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Ride share? I would not let random strangers into my car without being present.

by fhood 8y ago

crazygringo 8y ago
If it halved the cost of ownership of your car and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages (zero deductible and zero higher insurance rates) then a lot of people would, I think. And you could probably keep personal things locked in your trunk or a high-security locked glove compartment. Money can be surprisingly motivating.
- cr0sh 8y ago
  > and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages That will be of zero comfort the moment you get inside your car, and find out a drunk has puked into the foot well, or somebody was incontinent in the back seat. ...and those are the nice scenarios - I could think of plenty of others that wouldn't be pleasant at all for the owner. At that point, your only recourse would be to send your car off to be detailed/repaired/whatever, while you went to hail a ride service (and hope you don't get another car with the same issue). Heck - can you imagine getting into your car, only to find that it was inhabited by a chain smoker for the entire day?
chipotle_coyote 8y ago
I believe the assumption is that the car is owned by a ride-sharing company, not you. You are not letting random strangers into your car -- you are one of the random strangers.
tomjen3 8y ago
Even if it took full pictures of everything before and after the ride, and the identities of the people involved where validated? I mean there is still the freak cases of them doing meth or otherwise not caring, but that seems likely to be something you can insure yourself out of for a relatively small cost.
- cr0sh 8y ago
  Sure, all that is possible, but you'd still be deprived of your vehicle when it showed up all funkified, while you then had to scramble to hail another vehicle - potentially making you late to your next destination. If it's your personal car, then you're stuff using such ride services until you get your car back. With no guarantee that a similar thing will happen to you when one of them picks you up.

Ride share? I would not let random strangers into my car without being present.

by fhood 8y ago

Ride share? I would not let random strangers into my car without being present.

If it halved the cost of ownership of your car and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages (zero deductible and zero higher insurance rates) then a lot of people would, I think. And you could probably keep personal things locked in your trunk or a high-security locked glove compartment. Money can be surprisingly motivating.

cr0sh 8y ago
> and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages That will be of zero comfort the moment you get inside your car, and find out a drunk has puked into the foot well, or somebody was incontinent in the back seat. ...and those are the nice scenarios - I could think of plenty of others that wouldn't be pleasant at all for the owner. At that point, your only recourse would be to send your car off to be detailed/repaired/whatever, while you went to hail a ride service (and hope you don't get another car with the same issue). Heck - can you imagine getting into your car, only to find that it was inhabited by a chain smoker for the entire day?

chipotle_coyote 8y ago

I believe the assumption is that the car is owned by a ride-sharing company, not you. You are not letting random strangers into your car -- you are one of the random strangers.

tomjen3 8y ago

Even if it took full pictures of everything before and after the ride, and the identities of the people involved where validated? I mean there is still the freak cases of them doing meth or otherwise not caring, but that seems likely to be something you can insure yourself out of for a relatively small cost.

cr0sh 8y ago
Sure, all that is possible, but you'd still be deprived of your vehicle when it showed up all funkified, while you then had to scramble to hail another vehicle - potentially making you late to your next destination. If it's your personal car, then you're stuff using such ride services until you get your car back. With no guarantee that a similar thing will happen to you when one of them picks you up.