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Originally Posted by whatnext
I'm not anti-car share but there is some appalling driving "skills" exhibited by Evo drivers. It seems to be a revelation to some that headlights are to be used once it gets dark.
Driving is a skill like any other complex task. If you don't do it often your skills get rusty. would you want to get on a plane with a pilot who only flew every few months?
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I no longer own a car. But when I did own a car I would go weeks without using it because I relied on transit and my legs to get everywhere. I won't proclaim that I am a good driver, but I will say it's just as easy for someone who owns a vehicle to go weeks or months without driving as it is for an Evo driver. Also, I think suggesting all Evo drivers don't own a car is inaccurate. Evo is pretty useful as a one-way service where if you don't want to worry about paying for parking or if you want to drive somewhere but take transit back or vice-versa you can.
I'll agree with GenWhy, bad Evo drivers are more noticeable because of the car they drive. I think if a study was conducted it would find that the percentage of Evo drivers that are poor drivers would be similar to the percentage of total drivers that are poor drivers. Guess what, I saw a Tesla park illegally in a bus stop yesterday. And a Subaru almost ran me over in a crosswalk because the driver ignored the stop sign. And a soccer mom drove without a minivan without headlights on because she must be used to the automatic lights on her Escalade. And when I was in Portland a number of cars drove the wrong way down street car corridors and none of the vehicles were carshare vehicles!
The point is, poor drivers are everywhere and despite a number of attempts to find a common denominator (females, asians, the elderly, carsharerers, etc.) there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who sucks at driving and who doesn't. But there does seem to be an abundance of people like you who like to use broad strokes in an attempt to pin the blame on one group of people.
I have news for you, but the requirements for staying current as a pilot who carries no passengers are not that stringent. I may not get in a plane with such a pilot, but there's no guarantee
somebody who has flown once in the past five years won't fly into the path of my commercial flight.
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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
yes carshares do have exemptions to many of these parking bylaws. the idea being to encourage carshare use and lower car ownership.
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This specific example seems like a nuisance to the surrounding residents and businesses, but this is the exception and not the rule for Evos. It is rare to see an Evo parked in the same spot overnight. In fact, I would wager that Evos have the highest ratio of time spent driving compared to time spent parked of almost any vehicle on the road.
One of the benefits automated vehicle advocates crow about is that cars will no longer need to be driven to the office, parked, and driven home eight hours later. Instead, vehicles will be able to drive someone to work, spend eight hours working as a taxi and making the vehicle's owner money, and then drive home. But carshare vehicles already do this!
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(Anyone else can park there outside of the 8am - 6pm window too)
When you have a lot of driving experience, you know exactly how fucked up you can drive and get away with it!
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