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Those are the first signs of the beginning of the end for personal transportation as we know it. Car ownership as a whole is inevitably moving towards a subscri
by hrbf 4y ago
Those are the first signs of the beginning of the end for personal transportation as we know it. Car ownership as a whole is inevitably moving towards a subscription model. Which in turn obsoletes car ownership, which in turn will lead to a different transportation model altogether. It will probably still take decades but this here is where it starts.
- sofixa 4y agoI think that's a way too positive/naïve viewpoint. For the transportation model to change, infrastructure and services are needed (trains, subways, trams, buses, everything around them like stations, signaling, staffing, ticketing system), as well as appropriate density and city layouts ("transit oriented design" in the US, "common fucking sense" everywhere else). Those won't just happen overnight because car ownership is more expensive. There needs to be significant buy-in from the population, politicians, and money. Those are present, to different extents, in most big cities in some places (e.g. Europe(including Russia), China, Singapore) but really aren't in some other like US and Canada. Car ownership would have to get a whole lot more expensive and impractical before Americans who think buses are for the poor and homeless realise the inefficiency of "a vehicle per person" and accept the investment and lifestyle changes needed to switch to a more efficient model.