Do people really dislike ride sharing more than public transport? Why? I dislike public transport when it's ineffective.
It takes me about 45 minutes to get to work by walking + train, and there's about one train every hour (less often in the morning), so it's inflexible.
If I go by bike, it's about 55 minutes (but then I need a shower, which can take a bit more if your company doesn't provide the right facilities). I'd say that the time saving for a train is ridiculous if we factor in the price for the railway system.
If I go by car it's 25 minutes, but then I need to find a parking spot, and usually pay for it.
If I could rideshare to work and just be dropped in front of my office, and forget about it, with a price on par (even slightly higher) than my car ride, I'd pick that solution most of the times (I'd still ride my bike for training that's it).
If there're 4-5 of us ridesharing, the system should pool people going to similar destinations. I expect the commute to be something like 35 minutes, with the added flexibility I could bear the increased time.
Ride sharing doesn't really work, because it assumes that people have very fixed patterns. I get into work at 8 in the morning, but I leave somewhere between 15:50 - 17:00, depending on what happens to land on my desk that day. Finding someone who's going my way, and willing to wait an hour for me to finish up is going to be hard.
Also I might have errands to run, team sports (or I may not, depending on the weather). OR how about you having to leave early, because you have to pick up a sick child from school? Current ride sharing leaves you stranded or unable deal with unplanned events. That's why people drive.
With driverless cars, that can pick you up on demand, some of these issues go away, maybe, but how do you coordinate sharing a random ordered ride with someone? How long are you suppose to wait, before the car decides that the other person is now late, and takes off without him?
Sure, but then you'd still need a large number of cars to handle peak hours, like 7 - 9 in the morning and 15 - 18 in the evening. You're not really freeing up the road if you're not reducing the number of cars.
I can imagine a world where instead of having a car you have a dedicated seat on your cul-de-sac's station-transit. Maybe set up in pods like a one-person version of compartments on 1930s trains.
It takes me about 45 minutes to get to work by walking + train, and there's about one train every hour (less often in the morning), so it's inflexible.
If I go by bike, it's about 55 minutes (but then I need a shower, which can take a bit more if your company doesn't provide the right facilities). I'd say that the time saving for a train is ridiculous if we factor in the price for the railway system.
If I go by car it's 25 minutes, but then I need to find a parking spot, and usually pay for it.
If I could rideshare to work and just be dropped in front of my office, and forget about it, with a price on par (even slightly higher) than my car ride, I'd pick that solution most of the times (I'd still ride my bike for training that's it).