You Don't Need to Own a Car (If You Don't Drive to Work) 

Victoria? Hahaha also Vancouver has a fantastic car share service called Evo. Best service I've used, but can only compare with a few other Canadian ones. Great Video!

I do have one question about the car share. What if you want to go out of the country?

@@gielwitmer9303 Hertz, Avis, etc, been doing this for nearly 100 years, you can even buy insurance to cover liability for other countries. Pretty important if you don't want to spend time in a Mexican Jail waiting for your security deposit to be wired by relatives to the court. Then again, this is why I never drive outside my home country, I'll let a local deal with the law.

Carsharing services don't work for everyone. I'm an electrician working in dirty construction sites. No matter how much I brush off the concrete dust from my clothes there will always end up some in the car. I would need to pay so much cleaning fees that its cheaper for me to buy a used car. Not to mention that I sometimes spontaneously need to get to a different construction site and transport some of my tools with me. I think way more people could profit by using carsharing and way more people should give it a try. But I don't like that you don't add such nuances.

@@ozAqVvhhNue I literally said "If you don't need to drive to work" in the first few seconds of this video. And later in the video. Hell it's even in the _title._ What more "nuances" are you looking for? Also, the last time a handyman arrived at my house he came by cargobike. All of his tools were in the bike, and there was nowhere for dust to end up but on the sidewalk.

Richard III is looking for one, quite desperately from what i've heard, you might be able to make a good deal.

But... but... you left so many of them along the road back from Moscow.

@@rcmrcm3370 OOOhhhh snap

I've seen your horse, it's been preserved and is on display at the Paris Museum of War. It was a beautiful white horse. I can totally understand not wanting to share him.

Pro tip renting a horse is cheaper that owning one. I do ride horses.

For context: the country's whole train service was flat on its ass nearly the whole day yesterday (2021-05-31).

@@XMrNiceguyX No need to be so dramatic. The trouble started around 1400hrs. I don't know the length of your days, but there are plenty of hours before 1400.

@@rutgergor2 how much does prorail pay you to defend them on the internet

@@gossifloor Dat zou toch eens een ideale wereld zijn als dat het geval was. Maar feit is wel gewoon dat er 's ochtends geen nood aan de man was. Toch wel een verschil met: "het treinverkeer lag de hele dag op zijn gat."

@@gossifloor I think it's a fair defense to make, if it was only down after 1400 then that means that everyone who needed a train for their morning commute was still able to get where they needed to be. Whether people were able to complete their morning commute or not is a fairly significant difference...

as someone from orlando florida, i couldnt agree more. i live 2 blocks from a massive stroad called colonial and it basically divides my neighborhood into places i can walk to and places i cant. theres also 4 stroads nearby and my parents get pissed when i talk shit on this godforsaken neighborhood and how unlivable it is

As someone who lives both in a suburb and in a city center, I can tell youthe world is dreadful either way.

if u want to feel less sad, remember you have a better living situation than most people

@@grains6002 that makes me feel way fucking worse lol

Is it bad that I initially read "sealed" as "salad"?

As a personal car owner, I would advocate such ride shares to my friends who don't want the liability of owning a car. I think it opens up alot of opportunities and this would probably be big/beneficial in a car central nation like US.

I pay...about $500 a month for my car. Damnit.

@@elenachristian9860 you probably pay more than that unless you already include depreciation. When I owned a car, my tangible expenses were $600, but including the depreciation of my car (which was kinda new when I bought it, so YMMV) it was well over a thousand. Just in case it’s not clear, if you buy a car for $10,000 and sell it a year later for $8,800, you’ve accrued an additional $100/month in expenses even if you didn’t physically see the money leave your bank account. For newer or more expensive cars it can be way more

@@AntherMoo In @M's example, you paid $1,200 for the car. Therefor if you spread that cost over the one year of ownership, it cost you $100 per month to own the car.

@@RichardFleming But, that isn't really representative of reality. Hypothetically, if you buy a car for $10,000 on January 1 and sell it for $8,800 on December 31 then your total out-of-pocket expense for that car each month is only $100, not your payment + $100. Your monthly payments go towards the purchase of the vehicle so you're realizing your losses without considering your gains in @M's example. To simplify the math for the example we're ignoring maintenance, insurance, and interest which should absolutely be taken into consideration when making the decision to purchase or car share.

Depends on where you live, lots of cities in the US still have crappy car share infrastructure. Namely, large cities on the coastline. Chicago’s car share sucks, Dallas’ car share sucks, Kansas City doesn't even have a car share, on and on. Some places are better than others on the Coast. DC has Cars2Go; San Diego has a plethora of options.

@@betterwithrum They surely suck if you've been sitting in them, which is why a small bottle of Febreze helps.

@@betterwithrum When I lived in Houston TX they had Zipcars only, and the nearest one was about 2 miles away from where I lived. I was super ambitious and signed up, but every time I contemplated walking the 4 miles round-trip in the Texas sun (on shitty sidewalks with no shade, on high-speed roads) I gave up and took an Uber. I eventually gave up entirely and bought a used car. Houston transit is *relatively* decent for Texas and the US, but other than bare survival it was almost impossible to live there without a car.

Even within a city, it can vary wildly. Here in New York, there are Zipcars aplenty in tourist or hipster-friendly areas like Midtown and certain parts of Brooklyn & Queens. But since most subway stations don't have park & ride areas, and street parking is at a premium, you might be halfway to your destination before reaching a carshare pick-up. I've seen the commuter rail start to do some cross-promotion, where they offer all-in-one tickets for day trips with a car waiting at the suburban end. That might work, but the major market is reverse-commuters, and there aren't nearly enough cars provided to support that.

@@jean-francoiscaron5706 Would you be able to get around town on your own, if you had an e-bike?

Richest and most powerful doesn’t mean it’s the best to live in. Your tax dollars here in the US do not benefit you in anyway. Infrastructure and public transportation are completely ignored. Your tax dollars go to paying politicians and seriously bloated military. Netherlands might not be as rich, but they have significantly less people, and their tax dollars actually towards things that benefit the people, not the government

me too. It has also reinforced my desire to move to Europe.

@@jennifertarin7748 WE have it good on this matter, still we have a looot of issues to take care of but our cities are close to paradise when compared to American ones (And I really don't like our cities)

The kicker is that European cities were built way before American cities and had in no way any foresight with regards to modern transit solutions. European cities were never planned to be car-free and walkable. They were retrofitted that way.

@@somefrenchguy2091 Anywhere is better than America. America makes North Korea look like heaven.

I'd like to point out that by far, most European countries do not have the same public transport infrastructure as the netherlands 😛

Vote for progressives

@@michalandrejmolnar3715 And to hell with R1 Zoning!

I can't believe how few videos about carsharing there are online. There are basically only a handful of low view count vlogs about it on RU-vid. I hope this video helps to get the word out.

@@NotJustBikes Really a great info, I'm using bicycle as my main mode of transportation but as holiday season starts I find longer trips to more remote areas to be sometimes not possible by bike or train

@@NotJustBikes I'm Dutch, and I didn't even know this service existed. This sounds really convenient!

@@NotJustBikes I extremely love this idea and I'm curious if it exists in the states

@@NotJustBikes Yeah car sharing is really badly advertised. I only know of zipcar bc they have massive logos on their cars. Going to look into this more for were I live.

The sad reason this probably won’t be implemented by the U.S. is because car dealerships and insurance companies make a ton of money off of everyone needing to pay for their cars, so this service which costs less for customers won’t look like a good deal for them.

@@HistoricalWeapons Welp guess I'll be owning my vehicles, won't cost as much to total them!

buut what about muh trains?

@@beretaniastreet6384 - Move, you say? A Suburban Home, that costs $500,000, in the City, might be on a Lot that is Half the Size, but cost $1.2 Million! That "Spread" buys a "Lot of Car!"

I guess, living in a Suburban area, (Owning a Home, there) could be mixed with Renting a Room or small Apartment in the City, near work! 😳

Suburbia is great, stop being so impressionable. Yes it's not economically sustainable because it's too nice. We are living above our means, its luxury living we as a society can't afford, but its luxury living don't forget that. Having your own big plot of land, free standing house, & the privacy. It's all quite amazing. Maybe try van life or something, turn your car into your home.

Suburbia is only a 10 minute drive away from civilization. But it's also only a 20 minute walk or 15 minute bike ride away from civilization. It is possible to live without a car in the burbs. Plan better, save money, get exercise, stop whining.

Yeah he hates the country (roads) he comes from, named Canada.

@@massinakmin8340 hmm?

@@PrinceJ20233 Canada sucks as a country so umm yeah

We need a better battery. I'm sick of oil refineries and lithium mines powering our world. I say the next big advancement for humanity will be a clean efficient battery

@@SandersChicken I don't disagree but think that current batteries are good enough to be better than petrol cars overall. It depends on the car being driven more than say 30k kilometres in its lifetime but that's pretty common.

@@CampGareth oh yeah electric is better assuming they are charged with clean energy. My gripe is when people say they are the solution to our problems when they are still mostly powered off fossil fuels and also use alot of nasty lithium. I really wish I or someone could come up with a new battery design. Won't stop me from getting one over a gas car, but yeah. Dreamin

Apparently Ford is currently planning to phase all of their current models to electric. We've already seen it with the F-150.

Having to share a bikepath behind a scooter or one of our 25km/h limited "snorfietsen" is even worse then a car. Those things must be inefficient as hell with the stuff that comes out of it.

I am curious. How often they were damaged by clients?

@@KrolPawi Very often, Poles are not ready for such way of transportation due their destructive nature, usually a lot of things from the car were missing, rubber rugs, even the trunk shelves. Accidents on road with our cars also happened, we would just go there, client would sign up a couple of papers and I had to call our befriended towing company to remove the car from the street. What later happened to the clients wasn't my problem, so I don't know.

I agree, monthly costs just feel that much less even though in the end it will be more money than those two single trips. That’s just how our human brain works I guess…

big number scary, many small numbers no scary

Totally agree. The way I get around that is calculating what owning car would cost, and having that as a ‘car budget’ for the month. I never get close to it though

@@wiebevanschaik8218 probably the reason why lots of things become/are subscription based nowadays.

This. I'm old enough to remember when you'd pay cellphone calls by the minute instead of a monthly fee that included more minutes than I'd ever need. It just felt awful. I (and all my friends) constantly had this time ticker in our minds and talking to people on the phone felt sooo stressful. Stressful enough to be actually rude to people and ask them to hurry because the call is expensive. Once we were all on those all-inclusive plans, everything felt just chill, even though many of us actually paid a little bit more than before. But the pressure was gone. You knew it was that price and could never suddenly become really expensive if you didn't pay attention.

🧐 In 20 years, very few people will own a vehicle outright. We'll all share and it will free up so much space that is now wasted on cars parking there all day long.🤩

@@ixlnxs i think you underestimate how many people want to own a car. Even if the alternative is better.

@@MrMoon-hy6pn Once they said the same thing about horses, I'm sure.

@@ixlnxs Yeah, and after the horsesharing apps became popular people changed their minds.

@@TheGrundigg No, after trains became popular people changed their minds. But how many people ever bought a train?

And it's less supply and demand. Electric energy is so easy to create. Nevertheless; Commercial and Sport vehicles NEED piston engines.

@@thebabbler8867 They definitely don't. Plenty of commercial vehicles work just fine as electric. And sports vehicles "needing" anything is silly. Most are purely for entertainment, not any kind of need. And don't try and twist it into emergency response etc, that's another subject entirely where it may be the case, but is not a "sport" vehicle.

@@thebabbler8867 The electric Ford E-Transit van or GM Brightdrop would disagree

More kids die from getting hit or left in hot cars but I still agree that air quality matters and benefits not just kids but the driver and everyone around them

That’s was an irrelevant statement. Driving economy version of gas is the same as creating co2 as a plant providing power to the car you drive. Most power is made this way

cherish it while you can

@@joejasat what?

@@katt5896 the future that governments wants us to have doesn't involve ownership

I expect the average time / mileage that car-share users drive is lower, but more so because they're people with less need of or interest in driving, and that won't necessarily correlate with skill. There's plenty of new drivers that own their car (or their parents do), 'experienced' drivers who haven't really improved their driving skills, or (perhaps worst) people who are overconfident in their abilities - they're just not as visibly differentiable. Many car-share users may have owned a car they drove regularly for years (or even still do own one), and my local car-shares have stricter limits on driving record in order to hold a membership (you can't become a member with two or more speeding tickets within two years - whereas five speeding tickets would only result in a temporary license suspension).

Afaik most accidents happen when drivers are bored or tired and move around 'on autopilot'.

very expensive in comparison to Germany, although we have higher pas prices

Isn't it hard cycling in vancouver with all those steep hill ?

@@Bolix345 You quickly get used to it as your legs adapt and all climbs are pretty short.

​@@MrIngeschus Car insurance is very expensive here. I would pay 200$ to 300$ /month for basic coverage (and no previous accidents).

@@xavierjunod5967 sounds like you're better off just sticking it in a jar and paying yourself if something ever happens to your car

Car rental was a nightmare in odesa ukraine

I think that's the biggest thing about this: you only have to pay for it when you need it. I know a lot of people who would say "I can't go car-free! What if I need to run to Lowe's or or need a big grocery trip for the weekend" or something like that. Car sharing seems to rebutt that argument. Thanks NJB!

If you live in the US there are companies that do this here

I recommend it! I used to use Modo and it was super easy.

The worst thing about vehicle ownership is when people without vehicles have your phone number.

This comment is just so true. I constantly hear people defend their big cars because "what if I need to carry a lot of stuff???" and then when they actually do need to carry a lot of stuff once or twice a year, they still have to rent a van because their crappy SUV is way smaller on the inside than it appears to be.

The next sentence was so brutal as well lmao, "So here they are, driving around in this bloated piece of garbage vehicle for every trip, everywhere they go, and the one time they actually need it, it's not big enough."

@Frederick Shull With you man. Really getting fed up on people judging SUVs and their owners. No one is forcing you to buy SUV but to diminish other people's choice just to prove your point is straight up offensive. Not many people are wealthy enough to buy a normal sedan or hatchback for daily drive and a separate SUV for their weekend or holiday activities.

@Frederick Shull I also enjoy hiking, camping, mountain biking, (ok, not kayaking) and I manage to fit it all in a 2 door golf GTI....but fair, your needs might be different to mine.

@Frederick Shull Maybe you need a SUV, but the vast majority of people don't. Actually, most families have two SUVs, are they going to their kayak trip using two trucks??? Why not having one bigger car and a smaller one and use the smaller one when you don't need your truck. No one actually need huge trucks for all the family. For example, my neighbours have a Mercedes GLE and two Ford F-150, when are they gonna use all these trucks? To go camping with 3 camping trailers? (The worse part is that they don't do camping, mountain bike, kayak or any of that stuff) People purchase SUVs because they think they look cool, but for real they are useless for the majority of people

Bad customer service -- thanks for reminding me/us! This is becoming, at least in the US, the standard, especially now everything's done via text/email.

@@austinwilliams3448 Not necessarily when you get into it.. Just when you start the engine

DRAMATIC REENACTMENTS! 😂😂

It's just amusing how they are just too unreal to be dramatic

Having your own vehicle is more about employers knowing you can reliably get to work since public transit is so terrible. And if you're young, you are more likely to be making car payments, so you more reason to actually come to work.

@@PseudoFiction I had been early or on time every single shift of the internship, and these were the same work hours. They had no justification for believing my timeliness was in question now. As for the payments thing; sounds like you think people need to be in debt to want to work? That's not how motivation works 😂 maybe we should also pay starvation wages and tie their basic human rights like healthcare to their job so they're reliant on their employer for everything?

@@PseudoFiction moreover, the job posting didn't say anything about needing a car for the job. It was a thing they didn't even think to mention until the end, I guess assuming everyone had a car? Nor does having a vehicle mean I'm making payments. Could have been a gift or hand-me-down from family; in fact that would be more likely for someone still in school

For me, 20 minute DRIVE to the nearest ZipCar, an hour by bus. That's because they are all near the center of the city.

Zipcar was bought by A is and has been going downhill ever since. Switching cars on us at the last minute is common, usually to one far away.

That's probably why he mentioned having various car share apps. But car shares probably aren't profitable in car-driven landscapes.

@@hispanofilos There's definitely a feedback loop that would need to be broken. Because car shares aren't profitable in car-driven landscapes, it then becomes difficult for people to break that dependency because of the limited car share options. As with a lot of things, capitalism is the ultimate problem.

That's where the public transport here in nederland makes it easier to get to your rented car as well. I never had to spend more than 15 minutes on getting to the car I rented.

I can't see Canada ever getting rid of our car dependency especially in suburban and rural parts of the country. However compared to other North American cities, Canadian cities do have more ppl in suburbs taking public transit. If we really wanna make a drastic change in how people move around, we need to intensify. But the problem is we have too many NIMBYs in our major cities that are pro-immigration, yet anti-development. They don't wanna destroy the "character of their neighbourhood." So the only places our immigrants can move to are the suburbs which are open to growth.

Especially with the sprawl mentality of our city "planners".

@@daelbows5783 Hold your MP and MPP to the fire. I call mine all the time. Call your city councilmen.

​@@skipaddle ​ Our city planners know that spawl is bad. It's just that cities like Toronto make it SOOO hard to get a building permit which is why we suffer from a housing crisis. The only places willing to add more housing are our suburbs which tend to be more conservative and have a higher immigrant population, so they are willing to let urban sprawl happen.

​@@MarcoGPUtuber Lmaooo i got blocked by mine after I didn't agree with his stance on opposing a condo near Davisville station.

@@Moses_VII Russia is really advanced technologically, digital banking, car sharing, delivery services are one of the best and the world (and our government are the most corrupt in the world, unfortunately ):

@@Moses_VII Moscow has an amazing modal split, with 70%+ trips done via public transport. Whatever it is that they're doing, it's working.

@@Moses_VII also, Moscow is one of the richest and most developed cities in the world

@@MrZigan4ik does it very depending on which city you're in?

@@oliversissonphone6143 no, digital infrastructure is on same level basically everywhere. You can pay with applepay even in small villages. But now it doen't really matter :(

He's said in many, many posts that its perfectly understandable for rural people to own and use their own transport, because they pay nearly the full burden of their taxes. I think the calculation is going to get more complicated when looking at environmental costs, but we're a long way from that state of intellectual development.

@@rcmrcm3370 yeah I know I just wanted to point out my experience. I grew up in a well connected European city and didn't understand how anyone needed a car. Then I moved here without any prior knowledge and that lesson was smacked into my face. The first few months where hard I didn't have anything except what I came in with (a backpack with stuff and my bike) no appliances (fridge) or furniture, and the nearest town was 14km away. If I wouldve known what I was getting into I would have said no but do I regret moving here, hell no. I'm surrounded by nature can partly live of my own land and really only go to the shop once a week for the rest.

The middle of nowhere is obviously somewhere else if it’s a mere 14 km to the next shop.

@@zUJ7EjVD maybe grocery delivery is the service for you! of course, it costs more.

Cars are a money pit. Car dealers are a government mandated plague on this planet. Fuck em all to death

@@runswithraptors you can buy a used car

@@namename8207 It's still a money pit. We run a small 25 year old car, we do only 2000 miles a year, and I do all the servicing. It still costs £800 per year to run it.

@@jdb47games no i meant the dealer part.

@@jdb47games and it doesn't really matter if its a money pit if you like to drive

I forlornly carry the punch card for a favorite restaurant that closed a decade ago.

@@googiegress7459 what was her name bro? I am guessing that was your spot. Fond memories eh?

@@Ag3nt0fCha0s Oh there are some fond memories like that around this town, but in this particular case, it's actually just the restaurant.

@@googiegress7459 i am dissapoint

@@Ag3nt0fCha0s IKR there should have been a beautiful story that wasn't about mango chicken or crispy eggplant in spicy sauce.

I don't have a driving licence either. I always told myself that I'd get one whenever I got into a situation where it would really help if I could drive a car, but I turned 30 last month, and that situation still hasn't come. I just do everything by bike or train, or by bus if necessary.

I have a license but not a car and I do miss having one very often. Buying stuff too large/heavy to carry, moving stuff, going to remote places etc. Unfortunately car sharing only makes sense in dense cities with lots of services for them. Where I live there isn't one.

I am now 75 and have never owned a car. At the moment I don't have a license as it expired while I was working out of my country. I now live in the San Francisco Bay area, but have lived in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Germany. Life has presented no problems without a car and at one point I had to decide on buying a car or a house. The house has appreciated 1000%. What would the car have done?

In my town (and the towns around it) it's still a normal thing to start driving lessons as you are legally allowed to.

@@gert-janvanderlee5307 In the States, you can learn to drive during high school (starting age 14-16+, depending on the State), but you often have to pay for lessons and provide your own vehicle. Growing up poor sucked in a lot of ways, but that one has had the most long term damage - couldn't do college internships or summer jobs off-campus or in non-transit cities, it's limited areas where I could live / buy homes, and where I could apply for work. Been trying for years to get my license, but it's a lot more expensive as an adult.

Oh where you from in South Carolina I’ve been to latta and Florence a time or two

give it a couple days of having upstairs neighbours who don't give a damn about anyone other than themselves... and you'd disagree. Space and peace is so important.

Just move to Europe already.. need any other great solutions, contact me

@@johnathankain8033 I think that is the point though - it shouldn't be a choice between living in a built-up city or living in a suburb with nothing but houses where you have to drive to do anything. A suburb that has shops and cafes and restaurants and parks is not too much to ask for. There are videos on this channel which go into that subject more.

@@johnathankain8033 moving to a different apartment is possible in case you didn’t know🙄

@@johnathankain8033 maybe start advocating for building regulations that make apartments quieter

I'm not suprised at all. You said it yourself: a car is a status symbol, and nobody wants to lower their status. But these barely used cars really annoy me. I don't care if people spend too much money on a car they don't use. It's their money. But they also use a ton of space. And in cities, space is an extremely limited resource. And so much of that space is wasted for parking unused cars. That space could just as well be a bike lane, or a sidewalk, or a nice little park. Or parking for someone who actually uses their car. Something that actually improves people's lives.

Why is it important to you to call it a volksbuurt? And why did you not look at more affluent neighborhoods as well? Households in these neighborhoods have more cars per capita... Dumb, biased project i might say.

​@@roelkomduur8073 My view on this matter is that upper- and lower-class residents tent to have similar views on transportation as middle-class residents. It is not a supported thesis, only a short analysis when we worked on the project. Om het project bevooroordelend te noemen vind ik te kort door de bocht (ja, dat klinkt hypocritisch, maar ik ga geen essay typen over dit onderwerp). We waren vooral bezig met circulariteit en urbane energietransitie. Veel kennis is daarvan gebaseerd op feiten vanuit de gemeente Maastricht. Het project heet _City Deal, Kennis Maken_ (als je het boeit)

@@firebird188 Has your paper been published? As I'm form Maastricht myself I am very interested in this.

@@firebird188 Dan nog, als je "Universiteit Maasticht" noemt geeft dat een zekere waarde. Als je dus nu zegt dat het geen echt onderzoek is wat lul je dan?

I believe NJB's point is more "don't own a car if you don't use it often". It is crazy how much city people own a car and use it on a daily basis, while a bike + car share would be a lot cheaper and more practical. Living in the middle of nowhere, you don't really have that option yet, but it might just come one day with autonomous cars.

Try an electric cargo bike.

Yeah, I feel that. If there was a bus line to where I lived it'd get 1 rider a month, and if you biked to town you'd need to pack a tent. But if city folk were to take this guy's advice I imagine our seldom visits to town would be much more pleasant.

I've seen a couple videos from this guy and they're only geared towards dense urban living in a 500sqft apartment. Ignore all the videos because they do not apply to you (and me).

Yeah dude, even the most anti-car guys here make exceptions for rural areas.

I don't even know what this program is but I'm glad to see someone from Columbus on this channel!

Oh man I remember seeing one of those cars in Gahanna completely stripped down, they took the seats hahahaha

I used to live in Columbus and remember that service. We had it here in DC too - they shut down here a little after they shut down in Columbus. Hopefully another service will expand to Columbus soon!

Shut it down here in San Diego as well. Double default on the contract because the charging station supplier filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, then Car2Go changed their policies so you couldn't leave cars close to the airport. Guess what 80% of their business was?

@@imilliterate4812 it was an App/RFID card based car sharing program that used Smartcars. They were always avaible and very convenient. It was primarly based around Downtown, Short North, Grandview, Campus, Clintonville, And Northland (maybe forgot a few other places). It also allowed trips to and from the airport with an added fee. It is gone now though!

He covered that in an earlier video.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B9ly7JjqEb0.html I bet youtube will block this comment because link.

@@rcmrcm3370 RU-vid won't block its own page.

@@naruoze Oh, it does, often. Maybe this one got a safe clearance.

@@naruoze it sometimes blocks links, since yk, self advertising ive seen it happen a couple of times, i post quite a few links to videos regarding the topic in a comment, and people often flag it as spam meaning it gets deleted by youtube + my comments dont get placed sometimes

Lol I drive a 2005 lexus rx330 (not by choice, I needed a car desperately ((because I live in hell hole car dependent suburbia)) and that's what I got) and this is very true

I prefer driving a large SUV, the extra space is always makes longer drives and chilling in my car more comfortable.

I don't like them either, but unfortunately I own one anyway. I moved into a house with an extremely long and steep driveway that our previous fuel-efficient car couldn't reliably get out of after it snowed (even after plowing and salting). We needed a new car ASAP so that I could get out of the house and get to work the next time it snowed, and the only options at the dealership that had 4-wheel drive were SUVs and pickup trucks. The SUV was cheaper and seated more people, so the choice there was obvious.

@@krispy777 Larger cars are usually more comfortable for longer commutes.

Great news buddy- you don’t have to buy one! Lmao

I was going to ask what you could use in the States Now I remember! Good old Zipcar. What is it? Like $10 per hour?

i feel the same way. id love to have options but im never getting rid of my old celica. i feel like hobbyists like us need to be politically aware so that our hobby isnt demonized and lumped in with commuter cars

@@dalton-at-work, yeah most "car people" are fucking maddening. There's nothing fun or enthusiastic about commuting in a car moving 5 mph. Hell, a good 1/4 of the reason I live a 15min bike ride from work is to keep the miles off my unreliable hunk of junk that I absolutely irrationally love. I love that Jalopnik has become an unironic public transit/human powered transit promoter.

I'm a car guy, too. But I refuse to own a car because it is an insane thing to do unless you have money to waste. (I know there is no choice for many) instead, I use car share. A few weeks ago, in the space of about 10 days, I drove a Mercedes A class, a Mercedes GLS, BMW 1 series, i3, electric mini and a stupid SUV thing. If I were to buy a car, it would strictly be for fun trips only.

@@bugsygoo you're not a car guy lol

@@dalton-at-work Well excuse me, oh great decider of whose who. I like cars. That's enough for me. Sorry if I don't fit into your preconcieved notions. Mind you, you fit perfectly into my preconcieved notions of an utter wanker.

How many cars do you need? Most people only use one at a time anyway.

@@disklamer That is not what I mean: chances are that the only car in walking distance is already used by another person, which means you can't use that car. Then you have to walk 2 to 3 kilometers to the next car.

Wageningen is a way smaller city with a university and it has carsharing everywhere. likely due to the student population, green mentality and absence of a train station. it's largely based on demand i think. if no one uses it they won't expand.

Agreed, I use a car club, but I live in a city. I can see from the app that it wouldn't be as convenient in other towns around me.

@@peterkierstv and no one will use it if it's not convenient enough to replace their car. And it won't be convenient enough until it's expanded... It's the same problem that plagues development of public transit. Phasing it in is difficult because people won't really use it until it reaches critical mass. Unless there's high enough population density, you won't get enough users to justify expanding to the point most people are willing to use it.

I get you. But really this isn't for 100% of people. It's for the 50% or so that live in urban areas (and the 68% projected to live in cities by 2050). If even half of those people didn't own cars it would have a massive impact on climate, traffic, health and... well pretty much every measure. And for people who NEED a car, they can still own one. Similar argument: I don't think gasoline cars should be illegal to own, but _most_ people definitely should be driving electric...

Yeah share your bed, share your toothbrush, share your clothes, share your wife, own nothing and be happy. No thanks.

@@thomasfalcon6350 Literally said none of those things, but ok boomer.

@@inciaradible7144 butthurt

@@thomasfalcon6350 ok boomer.

@@thomasfalcon6350 ??? Share your roads, share your shopping cart, share your cinema seat, share your bowling balls.. oh wait, you already do lmao Also, I hope you DON‘T think you own your wive, sweetheart

watch out for in colder periods that the battery isn't flat when you really really need the car.

Imagine all the other people in the exact same situation. How much material and energy was wasted constructing all those vehicles. How much road space is wasted storing said vehicles. My local council (Hackney, London) calculated that every fleet vehicle in a car sharing scheme takes 20 others off the road.

@@zUJ7EjVD From Xaviers post I read it as the father has a personal car that only get used once a week max.

@@liamness just get a second hand car if you are worried about the materials and energy used. Giving money to those companies will only allow them to order more cars (again, more energy and materials required) instead of you becoming independent of public transportation / a business model.

I do 95% of my travel by bike most of the year, save for summer when I must drive a field vehicle for research work. I do this in Texas, the least bike friendly place on the planet. To me, the Netherlands sounds magical.

You can't film a street in Amsterdam without seeing practical 21-st century transportation solutions. :)

I was wondering about parking. Do they have a free pass on paid parking or is it auto paid and then included in the price?

@@joakim69 The city has made parking free for car sharing companies. As a driver you don't need to do anything. Just park the car.

There is the cost of your attention and your social isolation. Some might consider tis good to be socially isolated from fellow humans, but not being able to read a book, day-dream looking out the window, etc are all clear negatives.

@@rcmrcm3370 counter point 1: When was your last social interaction with strangers on public transport? counter point 2: Some people find driving to be more enjoyable and less boring than sitting and playing with your phone every morning. (of course this depends on where you drive)

If you love cars, you should really want everybody else to not be in a car; especially those people who don't want to drive. Driving in the Netherlands is awesome.

@@NotJustBikes Yeah I've been to the netherlands a few times for vacation and I also wanna do my master there so I'm already quite accustomed to driving there and its actually quite nice. I mean I always miss the german autobahn but I definitely prefer the city traffic in netherlands over germany

@@coastaku1954 hell yeah

Yeah, owning your car because you need it for transportation sucks, owning a cool car because you like it, but not having to depend on it in an emergency because you can just use a different one, is great. Personally, I just want decent public transport so I don't have to learn to drive, but as someone who likes old machines, I have a great respect for people who enjoy fixing cars. I view it as the same as people who have a traction engine, or a shop full of vintage tools.

I'm a huge classic car enthusiast and own multiple cars, but I absolutely love biking to work because it's makes my maintenance and gas costs cheaper and I'm able to get some exercise in my daily commute. Also when I drive less frequently it makes the times I do much more enjoyable.

"Yeah, operator? The engine is missing ... I don't know, I just opened the frunk and it's not there!"

That's where he found the bodies.

It’s like the are stuck in the 1990’s. The ridiculous amount of time and admin involved must cost them so much money

"Hello operator? Yeah, the engine is missing ... I don't know! I just opened the frunk and it was gone!"

Move within Canada or overseas ?

Only a select few cities in Canada actually have good transportation infrastructure and all of them are expensive to live in.

Yes, I live in a tiny village with no buses but there is obviously no car share available. If I wanted access to car share I would need to live in a city but then I would probably go by bus!

@@bertjesklotepino Having to maintain it is a pain, having to pay road tax, and other regular fees is a pain. It is much more convenient when all of that is somebody else’s problem, and I know exactly what I am going to pay. Sure, if you use the car every day it makes sense to own one, but for the 5-10 days a year when I need a car, I would rather rent it. Even for less extreme cases like myself, a lot of people would benefit from not owning a car for all the reasons mentioned in the video. Car sharing is more convenient than owning, especially when you might want a different type of vehicle for a different trip. I know for sure my old Yaris wouldn’t be particularly useful when I make a trip to IKEA, but a van is perfect, and using a van for every day life is overkill and inefficient. When talking about corona, this is a special situation that is specific for that period, we are talking in general. Also, it is more likely that the dashboard and steering wheel will be the infested part, and if the car was parked in the sun, it is likely that the virus was mostly killed, and some basic hygiene practices eliminate that risk even further. Owning a car is a much higher expense than most people realise. As for pride, I often find that pride gets in the way of making the best decision. I always ask myself for every object I own “would I buy it now if I had not had this item and had the cash money (equal to how much I can sell this item for) in my hand?” If the answer is no, I would sell it. This way, I own only the things that make financial sense or make me happy. Owning a car didn’t make me happy at all, and it didn’t save me any money, so I chose not to own one. Again, I am not saying that no one should own a car, just that many people would benefit from making an analysis of their own lifestyle and specific needs and reevaluate their need for a car. Some would find that they don’t need to own one, others would find that they need one, but not two, while other families would realise that their current setup is ideal for their lifestyle.

I live in Texas and have never owned a car. I live in downtown and rarely visit the suburbs. I've come to the conclusion that with all the options I have for getting around these days (all of which could be improved, for sure), if I can't get there, I don't need to go.

@@tokiomitohsaka7770 I own two old cars. Very old cars in modern standards (a 92' and a 94'). I've paid 2 000 $ for each of them. One is for summer weekend trips (fun). One is for short distances travelling (I also mainly walk when the distance is 3 km or less). Both cars costs me next to nothing if I don't use them. I really like them. I see those as relics of a not-so-distant past when quality (and simplicity) mattered over quantity (and complexity). I do enjoy keeping them clean and in mechanical order. It has nothing to do with pride though. It has to do with fun. It's a hobby. I don't need two cars. But I own them anyway. And when I see all those new, shiny electric cars being driven on the road, I know that my two old cars will survive those pieces of crap, weither they are shared or not. The cars you're sharing right now will be crushed in the junkyard in a few years, and my cars will still be running. What is the average lifespan of a new car, weither it is shared or not? Mind you, if I had the choice to take a train to make interurban trips, I would use it. I've lived 6 months in France in 2010, and it was amazing, being able to use a train to go pretty much anywhere I wanted. But I live in Canada, and the last passenger train connecting my city to any other city went bankrupt in the 90' where I live. This said, I would not get rid of my old cars anyway. I would still keep them as a hobby. By the way, I'm an urban planner. And I absolutely love the idea of a walkable city. But I also love my city, which is, sadly (at least for now), far from that stage. I'm currently trying to change mentalities. As for the mass transit here... I won't even talk about it. I think that car-sharing might be a good idea in the short run, but in long terms, it becomes a false-good idea, especially within the boudaries of a city. I thinkg that it keeps municipal politics from thinking the grid otherwise. A much needed way of thinking otherwise... An urgent way of thinking otherwise... Like putting a bandage over a gangrenous leg. The road tax here are paid by everyone, not just the owners of cars. I personnaly think that there should be a huge tax on new car buyers/renters. Instead, here, you receive money if you buy a new electric car. Companies that are renting electric vehicle also receive money. Why do I have to pay for people to buy new cars? Why do I have to pay for those companies new shiny cars? It is just complete insanity. It is destroying the planet.

@@coastaku1954 If you know how to fix a car it becomes less of a headache, but it still requires you to spend time that could have been used for other things. Personally, I hate driving manual, having loud engines. If I am going to drive somewhere, I prefer an electric car. I don’t care about handling or power, I get no better joy from driving a mustang than I do from driving a Zoe or a Leaf, if anything the quiet and peaceful ride is much more enjoyable to me. Not everyone is a car person. If you own a car because you like it, that’s fine, but not everyone is like that. Most car owners I know own cars because they think they need to own one to get around (sometimes it is true, sometimes it isn’t).

@@bengagnon2894 Again I am not saying that you shouldn’t own cars, I am just saying that a lot of people may benefit from not owning one. If owning cars bring you joy, more power to you. With that said, car sharing is not destroying the planet, and is a lot more environmentally friendly than regular car ownership. A fleet of 10 cars that serve 50 people mean that 40 cars don’t need to be manufactured only to spend most of the time parking somewhere. And while these 10 cars will be scrapped sooner than most privately owned cars, they will end up getting a high mileage before being scrapped, and are regularly being maintained and serviced. And with electric cars, they last much longer than the average ICE car. As for governments encouraging people to buy new electric cars, this encourages people who were going to buy a new car anyway to buy an electric one. And frankly, in the bottom line, it is more environmentally friendly than keeping an old petrol or diesel car (probably less than two years to break-even), even when you consider the production of the car and batteries. And considering that electric cars have less parts that may need servicing and replacing, you are going to keep an average electric car for longer than an average ICE car from the same year. Here is a video that talks about it in greater detail ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6RhtiPefVzM.html and even this video doesn’t take the other processes involved in the oil industry, just the petrol/diesel burn itself. So it is very likely that by the end of the first year to break-even.

There are so many things that we own and store to use maybe once a month or once a year! I'd love to have tool share, vacuum share, lawn mower share, pressure cooker share...

Housing prices are insane everywhere. My own house which is small by American standards and run down got appraised at $1m by the locality. My parents bought the house for $30k in 1995 and sold it to me for $125k in 2007

"Car people" aren't born though, they are products of their environment. If you rely on your car heavily and use it daily, of course you're going to form some kind of emotional attachment to it.

Why is driving one mile to the store the only option? Is it really impossible to get there by foot?

@@liamness I don't believe so. I've been interested in them long before I could drive. I like the history of cars and the engineering that goes into new technologies and the differences in cars that you may not suspect. My attachment to my cars comes from the work I put into them, not the value I get out of them.

@@Jehty21 It's a mile by car. I can technically walk there the same way, but I'll be walking in gutters by cars going 50 mph. If I want to use a sidewalk, I have to navigate through the suburbs and the walk ends up being much longer.

@@DL-xv9dm how much longer? And why can't you use a bike through the suburbs?

Or use delivery