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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This would eliminate that. And the article starts with the position they don't believe ownership would significantly decline, which virtually every think tank has said it would.
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A lot of these studies are done by think tanks that are anti-car to begin with or those that think people are perfectly rational.
While you can have capital cost savings by sharing a vehicle, the experiences of existing fleet vehicles say that to make the same trip, a fleet SDC will need to travel more because it has to make dead head miles to the next passenger which erases any economic advantage.
Personally, I think the desire for ownership is so strong such that a marginal economic difference would not overcome. There are plenty of things that people own, or at least have exclusive access to, that are not utilized 100% but are rarely shared.