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I think it can be easy to overestimate your requirements for a car. If you mostly use your car for a ten minute drive to work, but twice a year need to drive s
by NeoTar 4y ago
I think it can be easy to overestimate your requirements for a car.
If you mostly use your car for a ten minute drive to work, but twice a year need to drive several thousand kilometers, it may be tempting to optimize for the latter (in terms of size, comfort, velocity), whilst it may be cheaper overall to optimize for the former and hire a vehicle for the latter.
- enkid 4y agoMost cars can drive a little over the speed limit just fine, and a cheap minivan has as much space as most expensive three row SUVs. Maybe getting an upgrade with a TV counts as "optimizing?" But you can get portable screens that strap to a seat for under a hundred bucks on sale.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoIn my case it's not optimization, it's just constraint satisfying. My constraints are: I don't want two cars and when I drive on holiday I pass through eight countries. Most rental companies don't like you to take the car out of the country. So to satisfy all the constraints I have a big car that is comfortable to drive for long distances. Of course not everyone takes long holidays (several months) touring so their constraints would be different and satisfiable with different solutions.