Market Shift in Transportation

With Uber and Lift, its making it easier to travel and cheaper then owning an actual car if you are in the right area. Even in cities that don't have the greatest public transport these programs fill in the gaps and reduce costs and make transportation easier and cheaper.

On a different note, I have seen in Oregon, since less and less people are buying gas, and more hybrids and electric cars, the roads are getting worse and now they are instituting a pay per mile program where your car is tracked and your credit card is charged per mile you drive to make up the difference.

Another thing that is on the rise is driverless cars. I think within the next 1-2 years we will see a 10-20% autonomous program for personal transportation. Uber new Autonomous driver cars will most likely destroy a predicted 10 million jobs between taxi drivers by year 2025.

The major auto industries are already predicting to make less cars for personal transportation.

What are you thoughts on pay per mile tax, as well as paying for gas in Oregon?

Will we see another crash in auto industry or will they be able to find a niche in this new modern market of less is more, and connivence and saving is more important owning a depreciating asset?

This is a really good thread.

I think Uber is definitely working towards a future of driverless cars. With them buying mapping services like Bing Maps and potentially Here Maps, they are getting the parts they will need to move forward there.

I don't know, at least in American, people love their cars, even if they don't drive them often. So while the car manufacturers will have to adapt to new trends, it's really nothing new. Maybe in larger cities less people with own a personal vehicle; from what I hear it's already like this in New York city.

Uber (and similar) is already hurting the Taxi industry. Which likely means taxi drivers will go out on their own, instead of leasing a taxi from a Taxi company. Wouldn't be surprised if smaller Taxi companies are forced to shut down, a local one here recently did.

Not sure about the road tax in Oregon, sounds shitty on the surface, but then again, driving on shitty roads due to lack of maintenance/repair in revenue taxes is also shitty. Edit: Guess what I'm getting at, it's a shitty situation.

I'm not sure how taxes work on gas. Does the state or federal government or cities make money on tax from gas at the pump?

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
I'm not sure how taxes work on gas. Does the state or federal government or cities make money on tax from gas at the pump?

I wouldn't necessarily blame the crumminess of roads on the shift away from personal vehicles. Have you ever been to Pennsylvania?

I think the US could stand for an overhaul of public transportation (but then again, I lived in a country for a year where I could take the train virtually anywhere, so I'm a little biased).