{"id":24281,"date":"2016-04-05T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/want-to-know-why-uber-and-automation-really-matter-heres-your-answer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:34:01","slug":"want-to-know-why-uber-and-automation-really-matter-heres-your-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/want-to-know-why-uber-and-automation-really-matter-heres-your-answer","title":{"rendered":"Want to know why Uber and automation really matter? Here\u2019s your answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/want-to-know-why-uber-and-automation-really-matter-heres-your-answer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports of the death of car-buying among millennials turn out to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2016-01-04\/millennials-are-buying-cars-after-all\" target=\"_blank\">greatly exaggerated<\/a>. But there\u2019s one big reason ride-hailing services like Uber, and eventually autonomous vehicles, are still a threat to private car ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, we just don\u2019t use our cars very much.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/03\/13\/cars-parked-95-percent-of-time\/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE\">http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/03\/13\/cars-parked-95-percent-of-time...ok_FORTUNE<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of the death of car-buying among millennials turn out to have been greatly exaggerated. But there\u2019s one big reason ride-hailing services like Uber, and eventually autonomous vehicles, are still a threat to private car ownership. Put simply, we just don\u2019t use our cars very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62175,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281\/revisions\/62175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}