This is America -- and as we say here in Texas, "Yo're eat plumb up with the dumb@$$!"
Well, I’m a Texan.
I certainly relate. We prefer independence here.
I’ll try to maintain ownership of my own means of transportation as long as there is way to do so.
But I also see what is likely to happen in the future.
I don’t think these trends are going to diminish mobility. They will drastically increase it. People will be able to conveniently go anywhere, any time, cheaply, without sharing their rides in the way current public transportation requires.
The loss of control will probably take more of the form of tracking us. You may think Texans will resist this. But we aren’t resisting it now. Information about almost everyone is readily available for purchase. And it includes stuff we do not even know about ourselves. And this information is being used by the rich and powerful to control us NOW.
Look around. It is working.