I am personally dissatisfied with how personal caretaking of devices like cars requires an incredible amount of mental overhead to deal with maintenance, but more to the point, this applies to just about every device you own. My smoke detector wants me to test it weekly. Screw that. My own body gives me enough to worry about maintaining.
On one hand, I'd be totally on board with having community cars, community bikes, and other items that get swapped in and out between people, leaving it to the repair shops to deal with all of that--and to do it more efficiently than having hundreds of people all try to ineptly puzzle out why their car is making a weird noise. It's easy to imagine how this public service is represented in utopian (or at least 'not dystopian') sci-fi, and it's exciting. On the other, I'm apprehensive about how the power structure would shake out, since this is obviously putting a shit-ton of power in the hands of whoever owns the hypothetical Bike4Rent service. You need to have complete trust in the owner to make that happen. To take the most extreme example I can think of for this all-objects-are-subscriptions model, imagine one of the maintainer companies develops a problem with corruption, incompetence, or bankruptcy. Could ClothesCorp literally take the shirt off your back, with police enforcement, because you did a naughty against their EULA?
I guess we'll see if we get there, and it's a big if. I'd definitely prefer not to feel bad because I didn't kno to change my car's widget spinners every 2,500 miles and change the arbitrary fluid, which is why the part-I've-never-heard-of-but-everyone-else-has broke and costs two week's salary to fix.
Perhaps you've never lived in a family or extended family where everything was expected to be shared. Thinks get broken. Nobody seems to know how. The repairs can be slow to happen. Not everyone cleans or cares for your things the way you do. No grand sharing scheme for me thanks. I've been doing DIY maintenance and repairs all my life. Not that hard. You learn to do some things and build upon that. With all the help on the internet - videos, pictures and text - its completely doable.
Shrug.
I like my condo with shared spaces, laundry, pool, gym, garage, work shop, etc, I enjoyed car sharing when I had it, libraries are cool, and tool libraries are even cooler IMO. So are community gardens, public pools, gyms, tennis courts, etc. Uber and AirBnB have also been pretty useful.
I'be also enjoyed renting VHS tapes, steam cleaners, carpet cleaners, skis, snow shoes, skates, moving vans, musical instruments, ebikes, e scooters, GPS units, archery stuff, event supplies (decorations, tables, chairs, dishes, etc), DJ equipment, PA systems, a Santa suit, an airplane, a generator, a snow blower, a drone, a camera, various exotic animals for photoshoots, lighting, a motorcycle, a race car, a few luxury cars, bowling shoes, a wheelchair, and crutches.
Owning less and sharing things doesn't have to have anything to do with socialism, and can work out pretty darn well sometimes.
Incidentally, this is also not in any way a new initiative. My sustainable development friends were running federally funded major conferences think-tanking possibilities for expanding sharing economies over 20 years ago.
All this stuff just gradually percolates to the surface and then some exhausted policy wonk rolls their eyes and grumbles "FFS, I was writing about this in the 90s".