In SA, ride-sharing is not yet ready to replace car ownership

The increase in ride-sharing could lead to far lower distances driven in personal vehicles, meaning far better conditions of vehicles at the time of trade-in. Picture: DENIS DROPPA

Here in SA, and many other regions where mobility cultures are worlds apart from those in aforementioned locations, I predict a much different future — or at least for the next 10-20 years. While there’s no doubt that services such as Uber and Bolt have proven successful business models and foreshadow what could come of ride-sharing as even cleverer technologies are introduced, I see these as supplementary to private vehicle ownership, not in competition with.

All of that said, I do predict some changes to the complexion of the private-vehicle population in the next decade. As electrification comes to the fore and advanced driver assistance and connected technologies are introduced, there will be a greater divide between feature-rich, high-end vehicles and more budget-friendly commodity cars.Instead of multiple body style and engine configurations from single vehicle platforms, model lines will be rationalised into more sensible catalogues.

Thanks for telling us, who'd have guessed?

It would be if it was incentivized like everywhere else in the world. Car pooling works. But requires some basics to be put in place.

We waaay far from that! For now😏

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