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Average car costs $31K, depreciates 15% every year, sits idle 95% of the time

Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:21 pm
Posted by euphemus
Member since Mar 2014
536 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:21 pm
Talk about an industry that is ripe for disruption. I think driver-less cars and companies such as Uber and Lyft will change the face of the automotive industry for ever, especially in the urban areas, in the next decade.
Posted by VetteGuy
Member since Feb 2008
28710 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:22 pm to
You must be a bot.
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:23 pm to
quote:

depreciates 15% every year,


Depreciation drops to near 0% if you maintain a speed of 150mph.
Posted by Hermit Crab
Under the Sea
Member since Nov 2008
7192 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:26 pm to
quote:

companies such as Uber and Lyft will change the face of the automotive industry for ever,


other than an easy to use app, these companies do nothing that taxi companies haven't done for the last 60 years. what are they going to do to change the world?
Posted by blue_morrison
Member since Jan 2013
5164 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:31 pm to
I paid 195k for my baller ride and u wanna fite me irl bro? I'll even drive to your trailer bro
Posted by goldennugget
Hating Masks
Member since Jul 2013
24514 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:33 pm to
It's why I only buy used cars and write checks for them.
Posted by gatorrocks
Lake Mary, FL
Member since Oct 2007
13969 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:35 pm to
Easy to solve.

Don't buy new. Save car payment in savings. Pay cash for new car every five years.

Heck the car I have now (2008 Maxima) will be driven into the ground.

I'll have quite a bit saved for another when it dies.
Posted by tke857
Member since Jan 2012
12195 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:38 pm to
in the future people will most likely not need to own a car. once driverless cars are the norm you will be able to schedule cars to come pick you up for everything from your commute to work to long road trips.

This is going to happen in the next 20years. Bank on it.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 2:39 pm
Posted by Jack Daniel
In the bottle
Member since Feb 2013
25709 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:40 pm to
Well, capitalism was about to do its thing in '08 but the democrats had to pay back their lobbyist so now car prices will not adjust to the economy. Thanks dems.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 2:46 pm
Posted by Tigeralum2008
Yankees Fan
Member since Apr 2012
17163 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:42 pm to
they said the same thing when Zipcar came out in 1999
Posted by BestBanker
Member since Nov 2011
17554 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:51 pm to
This is why I buy expensive cars and drive it all day. I make 15%.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 2:56 pm
Posted by LeonPhelps
Member since May 2008
8185 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 2:59 pm to
I will always have my own car. No way would I want to be reliant on others to get around. I will also always live in a neighborhood in a house.

Self-driving cars will eventually be a thing, but it will be over 100 years before it is anything like Minority Report.
Posted by dat yat
Chef Pass
Member since Jun 2011
4361 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 3:06 pm to
They may sit idle 95% of the time, but if I had to walk the 20k miles I drive every year I would be an unemployed guy with bad knees.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11444 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 4:07 pm to
When you are at the bar hoping to score with Sally Jane Rottencrotch and her friends and then inform them you don't even own a car and rely on services like uber--enjoy the fap.

...hotties like success and security, not some pinhead who needs to use an app every time he needs to be mobile.

Posted by barry
Location, Location, Location
Member since Aug 2006
50382 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 4:19 pm to
quote:

I think driver-less cars and companies such as Uber and Lyft will change the face of the automotive industry for ever, especially in the urban areas, in the next decade.


Cars have mileage and use limitations on them and drive their value. There isn't much difference in value between a 2014 with 75k miles on it right now and a 2014 with 75k miles on it in 2017.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 4:20 pm
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
263218 posts
Posted on 5/12/15 at 4:22 pm to
quote:

Talk about an industry that is ripe for disruption. I think driver-less cars and companies such as Uber and Lyft will change the face of the automotive industry for ever, especially in the urban areas, in the next decade.


Auto driving cars are the future. People will not own them, they'll use an app to schedule their arrivals.
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