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If you look online you will see that most batteries have a estimated mileage of 100k-150k before total replacement is needed. Most Lexus hybrids warrantees end at 100k.

If you are running a fleet of cars or ride sharing yours all day when you are at work, its going to get 100k miles put on it a year. Expect a new battery ($5k-$10k) annual replacement, in addition to the other 80% of the car that isn't hybrid like suspension, electrical system, interior and body.

The fuel savings often goes into battery maint/replacement, if you plan on keeping the car for extended mileage/time.

> cycle of poverty is strong in these rural locations because of the lack of public transportation

Because? Really? Because someone has to buy a car? I think your feelings are in the way of your cognitive ability.

>of low-income people moving to common destinations I'm sure there are plenty of low-income people moving to the suburbs/rural areas because they are being priced out of high density centers.

Lets not forget, 5% of the population uses the bus, that's including major urban centers like NYC. Nationally, nobody uses the bus, its a joke throw back to a time before cars. Fuck buses.

So the core of it is; the ROI is irrelevant, it's value was the prevention of job loss and market failures.

Now you see why I'm not excited and jumping for joy when people spin it as a profitable investment. It never was a money making endeavor, if it turned out to be, it was by happenstance.

If 60% of the fleet is trucks and trucks are rarely purchased for explicitly moving humans and instead purchased for the moving of things.

Rideshare already only has 40% of the market to convince to sell their car and perpetually rent on demand. What's the conversion rate of that 40% who could use the on demand service for moving humans? 50%? That's not a massive pile of customers.

Built in car-seats are almost a mirage, they are wildly uncommon. The premise still remains, overwhelming majority of people will not want to abandon a personally owned vehicle for some on-demand car that arrives and some varying condition and layout that you have to load/unload every time with your things.

Try it for a week if you drive, take your car charger/paperwork/sunglasses/whatever in and out of the car every time you park. That alone will sell you on private ownership.

>Many, many people already do this on public transport

Total fantasy. Virtually nobody uses public transport. 5% of commuters use public transport. Relative to the car-pooling, who sees double the volume of users as public transport, 10%.

http://traveltrends.transportation.org/Documents/CA10-4.pdf

Imagine if you owned 10 rental properties, were a plumber, an electrician, a basketball coach or had almost any job other than something in the tech industry. You would use your truck/van/large SUV for hauling trash, wire, sports equipment, etc.

You would laugh at the idea of selling your primary transport and using an uber/lyft every day to transport all your equipment. Every time one shows up or drops off, remove and replace all your tools/gear. The wear and tear on these vehicles is greater than a small commuter.

Just because you rented a truck once to move gardening supplies makes you anomalous. Most people who want to do that kind of work/hobby own a vehicle that allows them to transport these things with ease.

We haven't even gotten into the aspect of children. Imagine remove/replace every day on a child car seat from a rental.

>$2,000 might as well be $4,500 might as well be a million dollars

I can only imagine how silly you are trying to be!

Debt: 6 years to realize the savings on the interest? It nearly took GM that long to repay the debt they took on. It's sounding like a worse investment all the time.

OTJ Experience: I think it's less speculative and lines less wealthy billionaires pockets to invest directly into education and industry beyond private market money to provide great learning experiences for people.

>autonomous cars become ubiquitous then why would you bother owning your own?

Anything requiring a truck (60% of new vehicle sales) will not be something that you use as a automated vehicle that is for rent. You really are ok with ordering up a driverless car that I will take off-road and load up with scrap materials from a house remodel and send off, driverless down the road with my trash hanging out the back?

I really love the idea of driverless cars and I can see the stars in the tech worlds eyes. Be realistic about what your average American does with a vehicle though - it's not a daily commute up and down sandhill road to sit in a nice office.

>The US Treasury made a ~ $2.4 billion profit on a $17.2 billion investment

Factor in the interest USA would have saved by paying down the national debt instead. Additionally, consider what private investors would have returned with the same investment and what they would have paid in tax on personal income if they had never been taxed that $17.2b instead.

They won on this one, we can point at the various Solyndras the USA has bet on and lost while we are at it. This ignores the fact that we don't mail taxes in for government to act like a massive VC. We send the cash in so they can fix the 'crumbling roads and bridges', service debt and help the poor we are always hearing about.

You have reframed the argument! To use your analogy; You didn't have a flat tire, you had a bent frame!

A collision specialist will charge a greater rate for services than a local tire shop because; the tooling is greater and the staff skill levels are greater.

>two thousand dollars? And that's AFTER insurance, by the way

You never mentioned that this was after insurance. If your bill was vastly more than $2,000 - I can agree that we have a cost issue (stemming from insurance interference in the marketplace).

>In the end, though, they ascribe it all to their "hard work" and ignore those things -- condemning those less fortunate. Mostly like privileged stable upper middle class students do.

What a caustic statement! Blinded by this much vitriol you are blindly ascribing your opinion to whatever aspect of the issue you feel.

For every "privileged" student, there are "less fortunate" who get a tax break, a student discount, a grant or whatever. The world is a bit more dynamic than you paint it to be.

I'm sympathetic to your expense... I would also like to remind you of the operating costs. Not only trained professionals on staff 24/7 standing by to serve your wife when she has an asthma attack. The equipment, tooling and infrastructure alone justifies a bill of $2,000.

If you had said that you went into a walk in clinic I would expect a much lower service cost. You went into the same place that is perpetually prepared for a mass casualty scenario and received that level of service. Insurance has us so disconnected from healthcare service costs its easy to think everything should cost the same as the local mechanic or lawn care service.

"If you always have your phone on you..."

How is this clearly not a deal-breaking problem? Tons of people don't have their phone on them 24/7.

Lets just say I lost my phone. Now I want to log into iTunes to use the find my phone feature. But I don't have my phone to use to auth.

>We're overvaluing SQFT, and way undervaluing land

This is exactly it!

We are seeing a ton of individuals who are not wealthy, even if they have a strong income. They are buying into the idea of paying these crazy rent prices to stay "connected" or in the "heart" of the urban areas. Access to these things is not granted by housing, you can attend every fancy nightclub, restaurant and bar while living 15min away in a drastically larger/cheaper living arrangement.

Great post.

The only add I can include is; what good is fighting hard for a piece of nothing? You aren't going to milk much out of this as it is.

Stay on good terms! Maybe the idea isn't there yet, maybe it will blow up in 5 years. What if its the next Facebook? Do you want to be remembered as the asshole who fought over a couple thousand dollars in the beginning or someone fondly remembered, well connected with the owners of the new Facebook? :D

> It's like all the internet's heroes got together in one room for a photo op.

That's about all they do. Market themselves, hype, clickbait and spam their brand.

Nice to see all the internet meme brands in one room, it's almost like it's not just more self promotion.

...yeah. I was just thinking the same thing.

>If you’re over 62, your odds of having at least $1 million in net wealth (your total assets minus your total debt) are relatively achievable -- about 1 in 7. But if you are under 40, your odds are low: 1 in 55.

So the older you are the more time you have had to grow wealth. The younger you are the less time you have had. This is then forcibly tied into median family income?

this is huffington post tier article.

Moral of the story in this comment section;

Negative comments about Tesla will be down voted upon detection.

"make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law."

Try again...

While true, it's not a valid reason for preventing progress on the deconstruction of marriage.

'Our system is messy and complicated, so if we add more variables, it will be an even bigger mess!' - so make the system less messy and enable more variables.

Can you imagine if someone came and said add this function/feature to the program and in response you said "the program is complicated and the code is long, no need to confound it any further with features."

> An event happened to me once.

> All events occur this way.

So this is what happens when you try to inject sex and gender into every aspect of life.

1) LOL @ this website.

2) LOL @ Being a post that is only there to be ended with Obama rallying.

3) LOL @ forgetting your post in 2009 and realizing that your new post forgets the tenants of your old post.

http://bridgetcampos.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01...

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