T110's Northern Migration
Дата: 14.02.2017 23:21:14
KilljoyCutter, on Feb 14 2017 - 18:03, said: I think I'll stick with owning my own car, this "service" is
five times the car payments I'm almost done with on my car, and
would provide nothing of value to me. The entire concept of
Mobility as a Service is one that has no utility to me, and no
bearing on my life, except as yet another thing that companies are
going to try to impose on me in place of what I already have that's
working better and costs me less. (Almost anything sold as a
"service" increasingly falls under this category.) But
that's just my take on it, someone else might find it useful -- I
just get sick of having this stuff increasingly PUSHED at me.
Also, more proof that Uber is fcking evil.
When Uber talks about mobility, they’re talking not only about
replacing taxis with ride hailing, but public transportation
itself. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be lobbying cities to reduce
the amount of parking, or to replace bus lines they claim are
inefficient. Uber’s mobility plan isn’t merely to annihilate and
re-create taxis and pooling, but to move into neighboring mobility
verticals as well. "Lobbying cities to reduce the amount of
parking" -- talk about trying to use the power of government to
force a captive consumer base... The_Chieftain: I'm viewing this from the perspective of a person who lives
where there is no parking issue, and I still think it's a good
idea. Example, one serious concern of mine is that I'm able to get
over the Sierra Nevadas every month to get to drill. It's the
primary reason I keep my old Audi S4 in the garage. (That and
sentimentality). I keep winter tyres on it instead of the summer
grip machines it's supposed to be driven on and came with. I'm a
divorced dad. Every now and then, not often, but every now and
then, I need to have something to carry daughter around in, maybe
with fiancee as well. That means four-seater. Which is also my
commuter vehicle, boring though it may be. But I like things that
go vroom, and want a V8 when I'm on my own (Fortunately so
does fiancee). So I have at my house three cars. The Audi, used
less than once a month, the boring cheap sedan, and a high-power
roadster. That suddenly starts accumulating a fair few dollars a
month in expenses, insurance, and so on. Wheras if Chevy started
doing this, I could end up with a Tahoe the occasional snowy
weekend, a Corvette convertible for the summer when my daughter is
away with her mom, and a boring Malibu (or SS) for family use when
she's around, and if for some reason I need a pick-up truck, a
Silverado. All new, and without any maintenance or insurance costs,
and eating only one parking space. That starts to seriously
redress the cost imbalance. A lot of cities are trying to
reduce cars in them as a matter of policy. Some use congestion or
smog fees within city limits. Others, like San Francisco, are using
parking spaces and road capacity. Even without restricting parking
deliberately, San Francisco is a terrible place to find parking for
one car, let alone two. Average monthly fees for one car is $400.
This is probably why Caddy has picked NYC as the test case: If
there's any place in the US where there is merit to the idea of
being able to use only one parking spot for multiple different
types of car, this is it.
T110's Northern Migration