· Research: Vehicle sharing services are not a threat to car sales

According to a survey conducted by Technalysis Research in the United States, the impact of vehicle sharing services on vehicle sales and the impact of autonomous vehicles on vehicle sharing services were investigated. The results show that the impact of vehicle sharing services on car sales is minimal.
In today's automotive technology-related events, vehicle sharing services have received more attention. Vehicle sharing services such as Uber, Lyft, etc. continue to increase their valuations while continuing to make significant investments from the traditional automotive industry.
These car-sharing providers are not optimistic about their existing business model—providing people with convenient modes of travel, but instead turning vehicles into a service. The idea is that people choose this kind of car service to meet the needs of transportation and travel instead of buying a car and owning a car. This has greatly changed the face of the automotive industry and the transportation infrastructure.
Thinking from many angles, this idea is very attractive. In fact, many people regard it as an inevitable result. However, what about the facts? According to a survey conducted by Technalysis Research in the United States, the results are quite different from those expected. Technalysis Research surveyed 1,000 US consumers for automotive industry-related technologies such as autonomous driving and vehicle sharing.
The person participating in the survey must be a person who owns a car and intends to purchase the vehicle within the next two years. This premise may exclude some people who are not planning to buy a vehicle (but should be relatively small), and their impact can be reflected in current car sales. This part of the research is to better understand whether vehicle sharing will affect car sales.
First, the survey found that a large number of Americans still have little or no experience in vehicle sharing services. 57% of people have not used taxi software, and 23% have only used these taxi software once or twice. Only 20% of people use vehicle sharing services more often (the number is rounded up, so the sum of the data in the table below does not equal 100%).
In addition, the frequency of using taxi services varies from place to place. 31% of urban residents said they would use the taxi service at least once or twice a month, and 17% of the suburban residents would use the taxi service at least once or twice a month. The number of rural residents was only 9%. In terms of age, 32% of people under the age of 35 use.
More importantly, even those who use shared services are often used for a chance, and vehicle sharing is just a supplement to their daily driving. 75% of vehicle sharing users regard vehicle sharing as a supplementary service in accidental situations such as drinking and traveling.
Only 4% of vehicle-sharing users (less than 1% of the total number of respondents) believe that the car may or may be replaced by a vehicle sharing service.
The survey also asked about the impact of vehicle sharing services on their intention to purchase the next car (from 0% to 100%). The results showed that 8% of people said that there is a strong influence (more than 50% of the impact is attributed to strong), of which urban residents accounted for 14%, suburban residents accounted for 4% and rural residents accounted for 10%. It is worth noting that none of the suburban residents indicated that they would never purchase a vehicle because of the vehicle sharing service.
The final item of the survey was about the impact of autonomous vehicles on vehicle sharing services. 40% of respondents who use vehicle sharing services say that vehicle sharing services that enable autonomous vehicles will not affect their use. Forty-three percent said they would reduce the use or discontinuation of autonomous vehicle sharing services, and people in different regions have similar views on this. The population of urban residents indicates that if the self-driving vehicle is put into the vehicle sharing service, the proportion of vehicle sharing will be stopped at the highest, accounting for 15%.
There is no doubt that vehicle sharing services have affected people's awareness of the traffic that vehicles and vehicles have. But the survey results show that vehicle sharing services have limited impact on people's decision whether to buy a car, how to buy it, and how to buy a car. In the future, people's ideas may change, but at present, "automotive service as a service" is still far from mature.