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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Yes that would be me! I would spend the money just to get a few extra hours of free time per week, that I save from not riding public transport, and being able to make fewer shopping trips, for the guarantee of being able to get into nature
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Try again on a sunday afternoon on one of the first beautiful spring days, see how many cars you can find then. Zero around here
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Even if public transport goes out into nature, it's going to be a tiny fraction of the places that you can reach with a car. To reach nature in the same extent with public transport as with a car, is impossible. The few nature spots th
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Exactly my situation, I rent an apartment in the city with street parking, for me this would be the perfect solution, why not, I don't need any more range, the flexibility is much more important.
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
I want one of these cars, I live in an apartment in a city with street parking. There is no way I can install solar panels, and there is no space for it anywhere.
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
People who live in big cities and ride crowded public transport every day to work, do not want to spend their free time on the weekend riding crowded public transport in the city. The cars are used to get away from crowds and from the city,
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
No it doesn't, because the destination is not a densely populated place. People go in wheel and spoke formation in their cars out from the city into nature.
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Like I already wrote in another comment, I think car sharing absolutely does not work at all, because everyone wants the cars at the same time. It's really difficult to find a car when you want it, for example on a sunday afternoon whe
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
I also think these cars would be great, and have a lot of peoples needs covered, me for example. I don't understand this sentiment in the debate of electric cars, how all of them need to cover the most extreme edge case of long mileage
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6y ago
I live in a big city and use car sharing, and I don't think it works great at all. The fundamental problem with it, and the thing that is always overlooked in the calculations of how much time private cars are unused, is that everyone
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throwaw2934238
6y ago
Public transport still doesn't cover all the use cases of a car, such as hauling things and going out into nature. Which is something everyone needs to do.