That's a good call-out actually. I haven't thought of people with kids.
replyOne note, taxis are exempt from car seat laws and you can book them on demand via grab or the taxi company apps. That's what we did, it's a slight risk but so is life.
replyAre taxis exempt, but car-sharing like Grab not exempt? I have seen Grab drivers turn down taking a child without a car seat a few times.
reply> Are taxis exempt, but car-sharing like Grab not exempt?
replyYes!
> Also, COE wasn’t always $100K, many people are still on legacy COE when it was $30-$50K
replyWhat vintage was that?
COE was around 30K in the first year of COVID. Not exceptionally long ago. We have a continental car we bought at the end of 2020 with a 41.5K COE; we paid less in total than what a base-model Corolla costs nowadays.
replyThanks for explaining.
replyCovid was special. We also rented a shop house at the height of Covid (late 2020) and paid as much per square metre as we previously had paid for HDB.
Apparently it's cyclic, every 10 years a lot of cars reach 10 years, the market is flooded with COE and it gets cheaper.
replyReally? I would have expected CoEs to be roughly evenly staggered.
replyAlso keep in mind that when lots of CoEs expire at the same time, you'll also have more demand in the market from those people whose CoE just expired, but who still want a car.
Are car seats mandatory for children in taxis in Singapore?
replyOnly for the children you want to keep after car crash.
replyThe rules differ between Grab (our local Uber-lookalike) and traditional taxis.
replyThey are less strict for the latter.
For the official taxis they are not, but for ride hailing taxis like Grab/Gojek they are.
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