> So what motivates people to plan for occasional peaks and idealized usage, rather than actual daily utilization? The question presupposes the answer. I fond

> So what motivates people to plan for occasional peaks and idealized usage, rather than actual daily utilization? The question presupposes the answer. I fondly remember being a kid and riding around in the van-with-a-tv owned by the family who for whatever reason enjoyed being the family who drove the van-with-a-tv filled with their kids with all their kids' screaming friends. You don't want to be that family, and that's fine. But you should be explicit in stating you don't want to be and are not that family. Don't convince yourself you could rent that minivan in the case that it becomes socially necessary at some unspecified time in the future. Everyone in your life has almost certainly already heard you quote your statistics from the article, and they have adjusted accordingly so as to route around you-- for example, when they decide how to vectorize transport of their offspring.