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No, renting would not be fine. People take vacations and long day trips, often at the same time as everyone else. The rental supply simply can't satisfy that am
by throwawaysea 5y ago
No, renting would not be fine. People take vacations and long day trips, often at the same time as everyone else. The rental supply simply can't satisfy that amount of demand. It doesn't matter if hauling cargo or driving long distances is infrequent or even a small percentage of miles driven - it is a core use case for vehicles. Otherwise, people would simply not be able to do the things they do on holidays.
- emodendroket 5y agoI would like to see a citation that very many of these are by car... and satisfying vacation demand is, anyway, a pretty substantial part of what the entire car rental industry already exists for. All those people at the airport didn't take their cars with them.
- throwawaysea 5y agoYes there is enough rental capacity for air travelers. But there are substantially more vacationers traveling by car. There isn’t enough rental capacity for them and it wouldn’t make economic sense to keep rental capacity around for the surge of demand around holidays. Current rental capacity works because it is matched up to flight capacity, which is stable and predictable.
- emodendroket 5y agoI have my doubts that this is true among several axes: 1) do more people really travel by car? 2) how could air travel not be highly seasonal when school breaks generally line up? Hotels are certainly priced like it's seasonal. Don't they already have that problem? 3) If the scenario we were talking about became more commonplace, wouldn't we expect capacity to increase to meet demand?