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That incentivizes customers to shift to a significantly different alternative. For instance, a less car-centric life. In a way, forcing cars to be bearable he

That incentivizes customers to shift to a significantly different alternative. For instance, a less car-centric life. In a way, forcing cars to be bearable helps reinforce their influence. (Quality road repair, extra consumer protection, no liability for deaths, etc.)

ehnto 4y ago
People will just lease cars even if it doesn't align with their world view, because many of us live in car-centric cities where that would not be a sensible hill to die on. Just like many of us pay an amount of rent that no longer feels fair, because taking a morale high ground and not doing so would leave us homeless.
CatWChainsaw 4y ago
That will be a hard sell in the US outside of urban areas.
msrenee 4y ago
So let car companies run roughshod over consumers because you don't like cars? I'm glad you're in a situation where you have another option besides driving a personal vehicle. I'm not. I didn't build this stretched out chunk of suburb with no safe way to get anywhere on foot, so don't punish me for it.
Test0129 4y ago
Supposing this was even possible, that enough people banded together and said "enough with cars" and decided to change the way of life, it would take several decades, maybe even a century, to turn a town that is primarily driven to a town that is primarily walked. It's not practical and everyone knows this. The utility of cars is too much to be simply tossed away. Imagine how hard visiting the mountains would be without one. Perhaps a more metropolitan person could live with just seeing pictures but I am an outdoorsman and this idea actually causes significant existential concern. The solution is to make obviously anti-consumer behavior illegal in the same way we make monopolies illegal. Companies should build usable, fixable things. Planned obsolescence, subscription car services, etc are all a way they exploit this position they have. The free market would ideally fix this but given that it's very well known every car manufacturer is in bed with each other once one adopts this exploitative behavior the rest will surely follow. MRR is extremely desirable. Since it's not tenable for at the very least our generation to experience a less car-free life why not try to fix the thing causing the problem and THEN solve the greater problem?

ehnto 4y ago

People will just lease cars even if it doesn't align with their world view, because many of us live in car-centric cities where that would not be a sensible hill to die on. Just like many of us pay an amount of rent that no longer feels fair, because taking a morale high ground and not doing so would leave us homeless.

CatWChainsaw 4y ago

That will be a hard sell in the US outside of urban areas.

msrenee 4y ago

So let car companies run roughshod over consumers because you don't like cars? I'm glad you're in a situation where you have another option besides driving a personal vehicle. I'm not. I didn't build this stretched out chunk of suburb with no safe way to get anywhere on foot, so don't punish me for it.

Test0129 4y ago

Supposing this was even possible, that enough people banded together and said "enough with cars" and decided to change the way of life, it would take several decades, maybe even a century, to turn a town that is primarily driven to a town that is primarily walked. It's not practical and everyone knows this. The utility of cars is too much to be simply tossed away. Imagine how hard visiting the mountains would be without one. Perhaps a more metropolitan person could live with just seeing pictures but I am an outdoorsman and this idea actually causes significant existential concern. The solution is to make obviously anti-consumer behavior illegal in the same way we make monopolies illegal. Companies should build usable, fixable things. Planned obsolescence, subscription car services, etc are all a way they exploit this position they have. The free market would ideally fix this but given that it's very well known every car manufacturer is in bed with each other once one adopts this exploitative behavior the rest will surely follow. MRR is extremely desirable. Since it's not tenable for at the very least our generation to experience a less car-free life why not try to fix the thing causing the problem and THEN solve the greater problem?