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Originally Posted by Stomachbuzz
Some time in the future, car ownership will become awkward. I have been in both GM and Toyota corporate presentations that speak heavily on this topic. They say things like "the automobile is the 2nd largest purchase most people will make in their lifetimes, but yet they only use it 6% of the time. It spends 95% of its life parked. How does that make sense?"
And their solution is to have communal car ownership, aka ridesharing. You rent the car, drive it to work, and park it. Then it's available for someone else to rent.
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This works in large cities with sprawling suburbs, but it doesn't work in a lot of areas of the US. It will never be 100%, at least not within my children's lifetime (end of this century)