anon the cost of operating a car is included in the cost of your taxi ride. that's why your taxi ride costs money in the first place. you haven't offloaded those costs, you just pay less of it at a time, but at higher rates so the driver (and the company employing him) can make a profit.
>>2067608>I don't understand how ridesharing has become so ubiquitous.it's literally just taxis, which have been around basically since man created carts but then and gave his homie a ride, thus inventing the rickshaw
>>2067754>If I go somewhere for a week and rent a car I'm looking at something like $1000you are retarded
only reason to not just go to a normal car rental is if you have some logistic issue around having posession of a car (parking, no license, whatever) or the absolutely abhorrent UX of the average car rental site (though Uber and Lyft's app UIs aren't much less rage-inducing)
and if you're a tourist you would probably not want to to rideshare since you would be making many trips per day, generally moving around a lot sightseeing and doing vacation stuff. at that point you would probably be best served by one of those shitty scooters (or *gag* a scooter share app like Bird) since you would be doing lots of stops and not carrying particularly much
>>2067752it works in the US because it's a protestant hell hole where everything has nine layers of rent-seeking driving up the price. remember that it's a country that leases cars but those leasing contracts don't include free service
