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If you're an established adult who owns a house and two cars, your assets have skyrocketted. You're having a great time.
how? can you capitalize on that upside somehow? sell them, live in a tent until prices are down?
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The difference being that lots of people want to keep those inflated housing prices high (nimbyism), whereas nearly everyone wants car prices to go back to normal.
Car prices won't go back to normal again though. They will come up clever financing schemes to make people pay but the prices will never be reduced.
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Spend 5K on a really nice commuter electric bicycle. You'll be doing a solid for the Environment and you'll have an EV that makes you fitter.
If you have a kid that's not a workable solution, moreover, safety is a huge issue on 2 wheelers.
I use one of these: https://yubabikes.com/cargobikestore/electric-boda-boda/
A relative uses one of these in the Boston area, year round:
https://www.ternbicycles.com/us/bikes/472/gsd
A friend loves this for their family:
https://www.r-m.de/en-us/bikes/packster-70/
Not cheap, but an order of magnitude less than a car ($10k/year by AAA’s numbers) over the lifetime of the bike.
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If you're an established adult who owns a house and two cars, your assets have skyrocketted. You're having a great time.
how? can you capitalize on that upside somehow? sell them, live in a tent until prices are down?
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The difference being that lots of people want to keep those inflated housing prices high (nimbyism), whereas nearly everyone wants car prices to go back to normal.
>> whereas nearly everyone wants car prices to go back to normal. There is a significant voice that would like to price cars out of private ownership. Traffic, pollution, safety, urban sprawl ... pick your evil and someone wants to eliminate private cars for that reason. I regularly read about how the next wave of cars will all be somehow "shared", that we will whistle and they will appear at our doorsteps ready to c…
So new cars are going to be come more expensive due to supply limitations and in turn used cars will continue to become more expensive as they can rise to a certain % of the new car price. At the same time housing prices continue to sky rocket. Seems like not a great time for someone just stepping into adulthood and financial responsibility.
The difference being that lots of people want to keep those inflated housing prices high (nimbyism), whereas nearly everyone wants car prices to go back to normal.
I'd prefer it if ICE cars were as expensive as possible in order for the planet not to burst into flames.
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probably not, regulation and crack down on pollution from vehicles. Have you ever rode in an older car that uses a carburetor instead of fuel injection? Nothing like the crisp smell of gasoline in the morning... or anytime you drive it.
Of course, you need some electronics. Let's rephrase: which cars from western mainstream manufacturers are currently the "lowest tech"? No infotainment, no digital dash, no touch-sensitive anything, as few sensors as is viable to still be road legal? And a related question: modern cars are full of tech because that's what market demands. Can we expect the trend to reverse at some point?
Rear view cameras are mandatory since ~2014 so I don't think this is possible.
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but does anyone still produce cars without chips? It's possible, and in the current environment it seems like it would be a major competitive advantage-- and might be more reliable in general.
Ugh... in one of the these threads on HN someone said a manufacturer was doing that, or at least openly speculating about it, offering a low tech model. I think it was in France but my memory is fuzzy.
(Including by people who've been disqualified...)
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If you're an established adult who owns a house and two cars, your assets have skyrocketted. You're having a great time.
how? can you capitalize on that upside somehow? sell them, live in a tent until prices are down?
Come on, we all know this problem and we all know the solution. It's probably red-circuits that we are talking about here. We've all been there: you have your yellow belts full of green-circuits, but the red ones are just so much more complex. You need to set up the entire oil production chain for that, which is tedious and you probably rushed it just 'get a few red circuits so I can get my electric furnace'... I say…