Thread: Interesting article about driverless cars....

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Could Self-Driving Cars Spell the End of Ownership? - WSJ

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I guess most of us will fit into the last paragraph!

quote" Personal-vehicle ownership isn’t going away. Some people will own and cherish cars. But those people and their cars will be considered classics. Rates of ownership will decline, an artifact of an era of hyperprosperity and reckless glut. Twenty-five years from now, the only people still owning cars will be hobbyists, hot-rodders and flat-earth dissenters. Everyone else will be happy to share. " end quote...

I ain't sharing! Get your own!!!

Like always remembering to thank the Hybrid drivers for conserving fuel, because I need more for the hot rod?

Through the connection with SEMA I've been seeing more frequent articles similar to this, though more from the support business point of view. For those of us who are "caraholics" this may seem like a strange eventuality, but as I learned when in business, roughly 80% of people view their vehicle as just another appliance in their life. They have little to no emotional attachment to it, it's just a means of getting from point A to point B.

For them that scenario painted in the article will have great appeal. Just as the WSJ article framed the vehicle and the ownership experience as an evil perpetrated on man and the planet in the early paragraphs, they'll be motivated by a barrage of both guilt and convenience messages. Hey, great! I can text without end and not get a ticket or be bothered by those other people who think I should share the road!

I'll hold back on enumerating the potential losses of freedom inherent in giving up autonomy, but just leave it as observing how we're going deeper into "The Brave New World".