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by Tade0
641 days ago
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> How many times are those types of trips done, as compared to 'just' running errands around town? If you have children definitely more often the former than the latter. I think it's every 2-3 weeks in my case. That's also how my father would use his car and, coincidentally his father as well. > Perhaps buy for what you actually do, and rent for when you need 'extra' capabilities. I did. Perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions about people's habits. |
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And of the couple dozen people that I know that have kids, precisely zero take regular 200km trips. Or 100km. Or 50km for that matter. And by "regular" I mean at least once a month: certainly on some holidays to visit family, but that is at most once a quarter.
I live in Toronto, Canada, and have neighbours with family all over southern Ontario (Windsor, London) as well as a some in the Maritimes. They regularly rent larger vehicles for trips (or fly there and rent/borrow).
> I did. Perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions about people's habits.
I made no assumptionsa about people's habits. I asked how often 200km occurred in general. In the US at least, 99.2% of trips are less than 150km, with 80% being less than 15km:
* https://evstatistics.com/2021/12/99-2-of-us-daily-trips-are-...
While 'road trips' do occur, they are the minority of events:
* https://www.utires.com/articles/road-trips-survey/
For most people, most of the time, considering 200km is a waste of time (using US data). That you just happen to perhaps be in the minority does not invalidate that: you are extrapolating a need to the general public from your personal experience which isn't statistically common and very anecdotal.