Flexibility and Adaptability

'Tis the future, the immediate future anyway. California adopted a new law where car owners can participate in car sharing programs by loaning their car out to approved club members. The users get to use cars when necessary (presumably rarely) without the cost and bureaucratic barriers to car ownership. The lenders get value out of their investment during times that they don't need their car. Imagine driving into work everyday and paying $100/month for that parking space. Sucks right? Free parking is a God given right, amiright? Well, if you participate in this program, while your car is parked in the garage and sitting idle while you work, you can put it on loan to downtown residents who need to run to wherever those downtown living, non-homeowning vagrants wanna go. Oh, that's me. Forget what I said.

Follow the link for more details on the insurance provision and discussion of rapidly decreasing rates of teens getting driver's licenses.

Pic 4 The Day

Emblematic of the societal backlash against the hegemony of car culture and life spent shackled buckled in, appears this Banksy-like (light?) stenciled creation on the streets of Adelaide, OZ.

This also reminds of an old post citing the recent trend in Japan that going/being CarFree was emerging as a status symbol. Know freedom.