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Originally Posted by AFireInside
Except cars are vastly superior for travel compared to horses. Ride sharing auto cars are not vastly superior to my own vehicle. I enjoy bringing my dogs to the dog park. Am I going to use a pooled car to do that? People cry if there's a dog somewhere on the same airplane as them I can't imagine a single vehicle.
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Cars are superior to horses today, but remember that we're still in the infancy of the whole "transportation as a service" industry, and cars took decades to replace horses.
Car2Go hasn't even been around 10 years yet. It was founded in 2008 and is still only in 26 cities worldwide. They're not even in Edmonton or Ottawa yet. Uber and Lyft both launched about 5 years ago.
Compare that to cars. Karl Benz built what is recognized as the first purpose-built automobile in 1885 (and people had been working on ideas for automobiles for decades before that). 20 years later, there were still only 78,000 cars in the entire USA (
http://www.carhistory4u.com/the-last...car-production) for a population just under 84 million.
Even though many companies are working on and testing autonomous vehicles, fully-autonomous vehicles still aren't legal anywhere in the world. When compared to the development of the car, the Karl Benz of autonomous vehicles doesn't even exist yet, let alone the Henry Ford (who started his company in 1903 -- 18 years after Benz).
As for your dog, if there's a market for it, someone will provide it.
Cab companies already offer pet-friendly options. Hotels advertise themselves as pet-friendly (when they are). There are even a growing number of pet-friendly restaurants because people wanted it.
I can almost guarantee that there will be pet-friendly transportation companies.