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In reply to the discussion: Carpocalypse now: Lyft's founders are right -- we're in the endgame for cars [View all]exboyfil
(17,865 posts)30. Rush - Red Barchetta
[Verse 1]
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
[Verse 2]
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
[Verse 3]
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better, vanished time
We fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
[Bridge]
Wind in my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge
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Carpocalypse now: Lyft's founders are right -- we're in the endgame for cars [View all]
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
OP
What if the vehicle showed up when you needed it and went away when you didn't?
Voltaire2
Mar 2019
#59
Those 3 trips would have cost a couple hundred dollars w Lyft. Personal car cost was a fraction
Arazi
Mar 2019
#62
Excellent point. This is an issue that hasn't been dealt with, full of empty promises
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#88
Talking to my daughter in Austin yesterday and we agree that this concept is great for the inner
efhmc
Mar 2019
#95
The end of car ownership will go hand in hand with the redesign of cities and work
marylandblue
Mar 2019
#4
It is sad. Women are always holding the short end of the stick if they
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#21
It really doesn't. I understand. More people are just barely making it and
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#24
So it's car owners, not the clogging infestation of Lyft and Uber drivers, who are the problem?
NBachers
Mar 2019
#6
Wow. That's what you got out of the OP and the discussion of it? Again, wow.
DontBooVote
Mar 2019
#40
I live near one of those stupid high-speed highways that has traffic lights every mile.
CrispyQ
Mar 2019
#52
Sounds like s/he had a right to be scared. Sounds extremely dangerous. nt
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#89
combined with more locally sourced goods (i.e. less need for shipping things like produce, etc.)
anarch
Mar 2019
#13
You don't fully appreciate the freedom of having a car until you spend a few days without it.
Midwestern Democrat
Mar 2019
#15
I once exited a relationship that had become non-consensual by jumping out of a moving car.
hunter
Mar 2019
#94
We already have "transportation as a service." It's called public transportation.
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2019
#33
they are full of themselves. Not all of america lives in huge metro areas...simple error in
beachbum bob
Mar 2019
#54
It won't kill off cars, but could for seniors, and reduce cars in multi-driver households.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#76
The future is driverless pods. Most summoned by apps. Some privately owned.
CrossingTheRubicon
Mar 2019
#80