Eliminating private ownership altogether, I’d reject. But there will come a day when self-driving cars will replace ownership for many. Like calling an uber or lyft. You ask, it comes to pick you up and drop you off. Then it moves on to do the same for someone else. Like one of those robotic vacuum cleaners, it will take itself to charge during non-peak hours or as needed. The only hitch to this concept is the spread of disease, and people doing damage or littering up the car but I imagine these cars would have sensors and cameras to penalize users.
Most cars sit idle most of the time. For most people it’s an inefficient use of capital when you really think about it. It sits in your driveway or workplace for 16 hours a day. It’s been convenient and liberating for people no doubt about it. But, as I have looked, Tesla will lease you a model 3 for about $450 a month (but, $5000 deposit). So I can imagine if you had partial ownership in a self-driving Tesla “club” for example you can have access to a car anytime you want at a very small fraction of ownership or leasing.
Of course, whether it is mandated or created by private companies the use of cars on demand by app will be a means of surveillance and potentially a “right” that government can revoke if your social credit score is too low.
But there are companies right now that rent cars by the month. Not like your typical car-rental company but I imagine they will get in on that action soon enough. You don’t have to finance or lease or car or get stuck in a contract. You pay for a month, and renew it monthly, and can change vehicles at any time. Comes with insurance and mileage.
oh yes
you will own nothing
and be happy
nothing about bugs are yummy?
I’ll stick to my 05 Denali.
Simply renting cars or sharing them may become more productive in the future than ownership, but that shouldn’t be forced by slimy globalists who simply want us on some giant ant farm, but as a result of market forces — driving keeps becoming more expensive, for example.
Just want to get that out there.
When a robotic vacuum cleaner has a fault, it just bangs itself into a corner until it runs out of power.
When an autonomous vehicle has a fault, it kills a family in the opposite lane - or cross street.
No thank you. People don't want to own a vehicle, that's their choice. Take a train or call a cab, but these autonomous machines have no place on a roadway with the rest of us.
SOOOOOOOOo—You call UBER when you need an ambulance???
Farmer John needs parts for his tractor-—He is in the middle of harvesting his fields-——
HE HAS TO CALL UBER?????????
I paid $3500 for my 1979 Buick station wagon in August 1981
I paid $4000 for my 1976 1 ton 4 speed dually Chevy truck in April 1986.
I CAN AFFORD for them to sit until I need them.
There are TOO many people in the USA who think it is OK to change vehicles every 2-3 years.