• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Wouldn’t you do it the other way around, where the car you own is for commuting and kids taxi, and you use a car rental or sharing service for the long trips?

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      We have bought the smallest car that would satisfy all our needs (a small station wagon), and we use it as necessary.

      My commute is outrageous BTW, 50+50km, at highway speed and with airco, that might already be a stretch for the Dacia Spring. I do it mostly by train though.

      I would have thought that:

      “Reducing car use is better than just replacing them. Cars cover a lot of difficult corner cases, but let’s offer good alternatives for the day to day life”

      should be a pretty uncontroversial take, and yet I’m here discussing with people that want to use cars everyday, and cover the exceptions with the alternatives.