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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If car sharing is profitable, car sharing outfits will supply as many as necessary. To make money. And car manufacturers (if they aren't running the service themselves) will build them.
Who supplies cabs? Who supplies Car2Gos?
Nobody expects it to be a free service. You'll have to pay for it. That's where the unicorn doesn't come in.
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Cabs are profitable.
That doesn't mean that all of a sudden everyone is going to stop driving their own car and take a cab everywhere.
The premise was that car sharing is going to be super cheap and therefore people will adopt it.
For it to be adopted that thoroughly, there would need to be millions of vehicles available. HUGE capital outlay. That won't happen as quickly as some are suggesting here.
And all we have so far is 'if' car sharing is profitable. Again, I think the logistics being that most people want to drive in basically the same direction at the same time, suggests that: costs won't be anywhere near as low as are being suggested; far more vehicles would be required than the projections suggest; and there is no real reason offered as to why people would suddenly adopt something that has never been in demand, ever.