Rental cars are expensive because they are covering the risk and increased wear and tear of rental drivers. As well as the downtime of when the car is rented to you but you aren’t driving it.

Self driving cars would make this massively cheaper and remove most of the reasons to own a car. It would make about as much sense as owning a train for most people.

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gosub100 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep just like how massively cheaper housing is to rent, right?

	▲	Gigachad 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use cars more like I use a hotel. Inconsistently on demand when PT doesn’t cover the route I need. If I bought and sold a house every time I needed somewhere to stay on holiday, renting would be massively cheaper. I’ve already done the math and uber occasionally is cheaper than owning a car. Self driving electric will be even cheaper.