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Carsharing can be recommended only by somebody who never have to share a car. - Car won't available when you need it. - You will come to a car, which will hav
by TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
Carsharing can be recommended only by somebody who never have to share a car.
- Car won't available when you need it.
- You will come to a car, which will have steering wheel and driver's seat in a setup incompatible with your physique, so you need to waste your time to set it back. Every. Damn. Time.
- Car will be dirty. All the time. Dog hair, food crumbs, trash (i.e. coffee cups, cans). You will take it out and next time it will be back
- If you are sharing with a smoker, I hope that you like smoky smell of your car.
- Car will be always empty (gas, battery) because previous user has no incentive to fill it up.
- Minor accidents will go unreported, and then you will be wondering, where this scratch came from, why is this mirror busted or why I need to hold my steering wheel 10 degrees to the left to drive straight.
- Everybody will try to evade maintenance fees - You want money for winter tires? I don't drive in winter man... 2 weeks later your co-owner will want to drive, because it is his car too!
Carsharing is a dead end and whoever will try it, will quickly revert back to his own car. Less headache.
- rumori 3y agoI had nothing but good experiences with car sharing, great value for the money and I wish it was available in more places.
- eptcyka 3y agoIt really depends. A road trip in a car share can cost as much as a monthly lease payment, yet due to the way no one user feels responsible for the car, the tire was showing 4 different colors of threads. A trip to ikea can be really burdensome if the front right brake has a soft lock or if the bearing has gone. Or if someone's left the car with barely any fuel in it for that one time when the booking was made to make a tight deadline. For odds and ends, it can be perfectly serviceable, but I've had those three and some other less than savoury anecdotes in my 5 years of using a car share.
- eptcyka 3y agoCarshares don't imply that the end users are liable for the upkeep financially, they just need to flag the issues to the car club, or at least that's how I've seen it be implemented in all the car clubs I've used. To start off, smoking in the car is not allowed. If they detect dog hair and can deduce who introduced it, the user will be banned. If someone left it with less than either a quarter or a half a tank of fuel, the offender gets reprimanded or ultimately banned. Minor incidents and maintenance items are taken care of on a complaint basis - once a user complains, the company fixes it. Eventually. It's not as bad as you're making it out to be.