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1 shared car is shown to replace between 7 and 20 private cars in various deployments. Building new housing with dedicated car-share parking is a great way to g
by mktmkr 7y ago
1 shared car is shown to replace between 7 and 20 private cars in various deployments. Building new housing with dedicated car-share parking is a great way to go.
- kbenson 7y agoHousing may be a little harder to accomplish usefully for the people that would live there for this idea, but business would likely work well. The problem with housing (if it encompasses a large area and not just small subsets of the available area) is that some people functionally need a car for their job or life. Cutting off large amounts of housing from those that commute or those that need to make semi-regular long trips for other reasons (maybe picking up children weekly for a custody agreement, or taking care of a relative that is semi-dependent). Maybe paid dedicated parking separate from the housing and only allowed to people that live in the area (with an increase in price for a second car for a household) would suffice, as long as it was planned well. But that's the problem, poor planning (or changes over time) could cause problems again.
- mktmkr 7y agoCar shares are definitely not for driving to work but I fail to see why you can't use them to pick up your kids. Car sharing solves the problem where people can easily journey to work without a car, but they want one for other purposes like shopping.
- briandear 7y agoDoes Uber carry approved child safety seats?
- mktmkr 7y agoNo, but to make sure we are talking about the same thing, a car share is a bit like renting a car by the hour. Uber is a computer-dispatched taxi service. Uber is not "car sharing". It is also not their other bullshit moniker "ride sharing"
- sokoloff 7y agoI think there’s a fair argument that Uber Pool is pretty close to, or at least has substantial elements of, what one would naturally call ride sharing.
- sokoloff 7y agoWouldn’t most residents of the building need the shared car at roughly the same time to pick up their kids from school?
- mktmkr 7y agoNo because fewer than 20% of households in Los Angeles have school-age children. That puts a ceiling on your worst case right there.
- sokoloff 7y agoProvided that the housing wasn’t in some way differentially appealing to families with children (cheap 3BR, good schools, parks nearby, other amenities)
- mayneack 7y agoIf most people need it at roughly the same time to get to a small number of places, then it's an obvious use for public transport.
- wilsonchaney 7y agoHmm...source?