Going Forward, Will This Pandemic BENEFIT Automakers Because It MAY Kill Ride Sharing And People Will Want Their OWN Vehicle?

Due to economics some people will still need to ride public transit. Virus risk or not. Others will definitely avoid ride sharing. Will this spur new vehicle sales? Only if you still have a job to pay for this large purchase.

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Good thing Tesla supports both individual car sales and robo-car sharing. GM Cruise is in a similar boat. Waymo and Uber will have a disadvantage if this is the case as they don't make their own cars and don't sell to consumers.

BTW, next Tesla Autopilot update looks to be epic, cars will stop at stoplights and stopsigns automatically and you just have to tap the accelerator to continue driving when the light turns green or it's your turn to go at the stop sign. Big step in the right direction, no other company is even close at the consumer level using just cameras (Waymo, yes, already has this with lidar).

Did STD laden loose women and working girls/boys after large scale outbreaks suddenly make men want virgin wife's (well aside from certain muslim sects). Humans will revert back to our habits -good or bad. Hard to believe but I still see lots of assholes still not bothering to wash their hands after using the mensroom and I like to follow them out into a busy store and shout out as loudly as I can "HE DIDN"T WASH HIS HANDS" as I point to the guilty Bastard for community shaming and embarrassment. I'm not a hero but I try to do my small part ;-)

Be safe everyone and wash your damn hands!

You do realize you can be sued for that, right?

I'd shout back "He tried to feel me up at the urinal."

Good come back and I would retort -"I tried but couldn't find anything" as the wife started googling divorce attorneys on her iphone...

This pandemic is definitely going to hurt the automakers. Simply because most will be in worse financial shape and many will have credit ruined.

In some locations it's next to impossible to have your own car. New York City is a prime example. Other locations it's almost a requirement, as the transit infrastructure doesn't cover the area enough to be able to service the majority of people. Los Angeles and the greater Seattle area are examples here. Once the pandemic has subsided (and it will), shared rides (public transit, taxis, Uber/Lyft) will resume pretty much as they were before. People have to move, and they will use what works best for their situation.

Think people will start fleeing densely populated areas/cities and will have less choice to use shared/public transit. That is if there are any people left...

Yeah, I live in a suburb, with my immediate neighbors about 30' on either side, the street separating others, and the nearest home behind me another 30-40' with a solid fence. I couldn't stand to live in those homes stacked right beside each other. And when I retire in a few years I'm moving across the mountains to a small college town in central WA.

One of the reasons we bought land in the Coachella Valley area was to have space and it's been fun and frustration building the house down there, but I like the expanse of the desert. Our "home" home is surrounded by acreage as well and we enjoy having neighbors at a distance.