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The cost for short trips is enormous if you amortize in the cost of your personal vehicle- say at 30% vehicle TCO divided by number of short trips. Roughing up
by Misdicorl 8y ago
The cost for short trips is enormous if you amortize in the cost of your personal vehicle- say at 30% vehicle TCO divided by number of short trips. Roughing up some numbers puts your personal cost at ($40,000 TCO)/(100 trips/yr)/(10 yr service)20% = $8/trip. That's huge!
In addition, all those trips require on site parking which is a huge* community cost and directly increases the cost of whatever service you're consuming.
- creeble 8y ago$8/trip is less than the average Lyft or Uber ride. The problem with transportation and measuring 'trips' (in the US anyway) is the huge geographical diversity. My take on Ben-Evans post is that you are fooling yourself to believe that you can predict market demand for certain kinds of disruptive technologies.