I would agree if there weren't middlemen and regulations everywhere making this an enormous pain in the arse and making the costs nowhere near what they would be in an efficient market.
Uber only makes sense for infrequent journeys because you have to pay for:
- a relatively new car
- an actual driver and their labour costs
- profit margin for Uber.
Last year the TCO of my car was under a thousand pounds, not including fuel.
There is absolutely no way I could have rented my car for 3 GBP a day. It's just not happening, there's no profit in it. I couldn't rent it for a month for 100 GBP, or even a month for 200 GBP (100% markup).
I'm yet to see _any_ of these rental services that actually work out cheaper than doing it yourself except in specific scenarios like somewhere you'd have to pay for parking, or the specifically urban situation of using the car very occasionally because you could actually just cycle everywhere instead (e.g. London zone 2).
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I would agree if there weren't middlemen and regulations everywhere making this an enormous pain in the arse and making the costs nowhere near what they would be in an efficient market.
Uber only makes sense for infrequent journeys because you have to pay for:
- a relatively new car - an actual driver and their labour costs - profit margin for Uber.
Last year the TCO of my car was under a thousand pounds, not including fuel.
There is absolutely no way I could have rented my car for 3 GBP a day. It's just not happening, there's no profit in it. I couldn't rent it for a month for 100 GBP, or even a month for 200 GBP (100% markup).
I'm yet to see _any_ of these rental services that actually work out cheaper than doing it yourself except in specific scenarios like somewhere you'd have to pay for parking, or the specifically urban situation of using the car very occasionally because you could actually just cycle everywhere instead (e.g. London zone 2).