So I often come here, even though I oppose the idea of saying “fuck cars”. And yes, I do know it’s not completely literal. However, I understand the logic.
With that being said, many people are using cars to be delivery contractors. It’s not a necessary utility, but it is useful and is used by the vast majority of (I’ll assume) 1st world countries. If vehicle use is reduced, what do you think would be a good strategy to keep this industry going? Yes, bicycles can still be used, but it would take more time, which would raise prices (capitalism). And another obvious solution would be to just do away with it and just go to restaurants. Do you have any opinions beyond those two that solutions I’ve already presented?
I don’t know if it’s me, my country or my perception, but “delivery contractor” isn’t really a thing here. I believe because our government was just good enough to spot this obvious skirting of labour laws.
Since they couldn’t as easily exploit the driver, they made the service more expensive and worse. Or they just acted as the ones who would forward your order to the restaurant… but then most people I know just order directly to have better service. I think we ordered via such a service once, after much delay the driver told us the order took 30 minutes to even get to them. Could have lied, but couldn’t have used that excuse if we ordered directly.
Now to your point, as they are just regular employees, they don’t have to wait in the car, the company doesn’t want them to get stuck in traffic, and high urbanization means you can only drive 50km/h 90% of the time anyway, delivery is done with Scooters.