1. I can use the ride to drink coffee and wake up, so I wake later and am more productive through the day. Plus I can use the time to generally relax, listen to music, listen to a book, read news, and so on.
2. I spend zero time at gas stations, washing the car, servicing it, warming it up, changing to winter tires, or cleaning the windshield off. I also spend zero time doing driveway snow removal in the winter.
3. I have to find parking with my own car.
4. I am more likely to use my feet as my primary mode of transportation. This means I am less likely to need to schedule separate exercise time. And I can still listen to music, news, or an audiobook.
5. Because it saves money, budgeting is a little easier (especially if you are poor) because you aren't as tight.
I know it has been the fancy thing to say for at least the past 2-3 years, but I for myself get car-sickness at even the thought of reading in a car. I do not get any car sickness while riding the tramway or the trolleybus (even though I have to stand up). The billions of dollars spent on companies like Uber would have been much better spent trying to raise awareness about the benefits of public transport.
I still try to take public transit when I travel (Chicago is pretty good and Portland is OK when it goes close to where you want. Bay Area doesn't have enough tendrils to get you within a few miles of where you want to go unless you're in SF proper, and half my friends refuse to ride Muni even though it's totally fine compared to SMART busses in Detroit) but it's hard to convince most people that the train or the bus could ever be not disgusting and filled with people who exist to make your life miserable.
Raising awareness of public transportation? It's not that people are not aware, the US political system is just a shit-show and thus it want happen. Even private public transportation is usually outlawed.
Uber style services is a market response to the problem of transportation, because public transit options have not grown form the market because the government is slow and outlaw most private public transportation.
By not driving to the petrol station, not doing scheduled car service, not dealing with insurance, not renewing driving license, and likely a few other things.
This time is often recouped by not having to get out of the garage and find place to park. (of course parking on or close to the street at home and having a designated place at work mitigates that)
2. I spend zero time at gas stations, washing the car, servicing it, warming it up, changing to winter tires, or cleaning the windshield off. I also spend zero time doing driveway snow removal in the winter.
3. I have to find parking with my own car.
4. I am more likely to use my feet as my primary mode of transportation. This means I am less likely to need to schedule separate exercise time. And I can still listen to music, news, or an audiobook.
5. Because it saves money, budgeting is a little easier (especially if you are poor) because you aren't as tight.