alt Hacker NewsBecause it’s not convenient enough, and too expensive.
Fix those two and personal car ownership will plummet in many places.
Many people don’t want to own a car, pay for insurance, gas, tires, oil changes, parking, washing etc.
Car ownership sucks horribly for most people, it’s just currently the best option. That will change.
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ks2048 • last Thursday at 11:54 PM
Almost all these points apply ride hailing with or without driver-less.
How do Waymo prices compare to Uber where Waymo exists?
> pay for insurance, gas, tires, oil changes, parking, washing etc.
If you use a car you are paying for those costs. There is no getting around it. If you uber it is indirect, but part of your costs per ride is going to those things. Renting a car gets someone else to do them - but you are paying them to do that somehow. (self driving make trade parking for gas where parking is expensive, so in the densits areas this can make sense, but only because the car is driving empty out to the suburbs in the morning and empty back into the city in the evening - so it increases traffic)
If you own your car you can choose to not keep it clean. The rental will not allow that choice and so you pay for it.