Car rentals are expensive and time consuming affairs. This ‘solution’ is worse for the vast majority of people than owning a car. It’s why you don’t see people doing it.
In that case, why not just have no car at all and use a bike or public transit and rent a car when you really need one?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 8 months ago
I drove a beater with no note for like twenty years and just rented for car trips.
Having two or three car payments a year is cheaper than twelve.
It’s unconventional, but plenty of people do it.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
When compared with the cost savings, in my personal case, renting when I need a car to drive 100+miles, is cheaper than buying a more expensive ev, or paying for fuel in a gasoline vehicle.
The time is negligible as well when I compare the time I don’t spend at gas stations because I charge at home.
toni_bmw@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are countless things that can’t be done without a car, even when you are a certain age or care for older family members. The reasoning of living without a car in property, in my humble opinion, is only valid at a certain time in life
st3ph3n@midwest.social 8 months ago
The feasibility of that will be highly variable depending on where you live. Much of America is a public transit desert.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 months ago
Thats not true. I guarantee that whatever town you live in has a robust public transportion system that hits every single residential area.
The problem is that only children are allowed to use it, and only twice a day.
meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hah. As somebody that had to be driven to the bus stop because it was over a mile away, I call BS.