Ah, yes the subway in NYC proper is awesome. Even then in the burbs, it’s fairly common for car services to bulk price commuters, taking three or four at a time from the train station to the surrounding hoods for flat $5 fee each.
Still, owning a car runs around $15/day plus massive convenience. If we introduce a third apex, quality, I’d argue that it’s moderately high compared to current alternatives. NYC being a notable exception, were quality is on par or lower due to hassles of parking and congestion.
So much like the cost, quality, time paradigm for development, the existing automobile, is cheap, fast and relatively high quality. The future replacement can be cheaper, faster or high quality to supplant.
Self driving cars are here. By the time they go for sale, surely they’ll include a autonomous drop off and pickup.
There’s a major difference between “could” getaway without a car and no car being the more convenient, flexible and cost effective choice.
If I lived in DC, Boston, San Fran or NYC proper, I’d be sans car.
