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Originally Posted by beachBmmr
I appreciate this dystopian view, but its the wrong dystopia.
IMO this is the plan - I work for the company that is enabling it through massive technological capability in autonomous driving. I see the branded rigs up and down I45 in Texas every month, learning. You may have seen the minivans running around Socal, and Arizona...Nuff said.
Soon (in our lifetime), private citizens will not own cars. Period. They will be too expensive to. The resources to build them will be too scarce, and the operating expense will lock most people out of the market. Its actually not a bad idea, when you consider the utilization rates of a depreciating asset. Car shares are a much more efficient way of solving for transportation needs... Auto manufacturers know this. Automobiles are not following moores law, the tech should be getting cheaper, but it isnt, its getting more expensive.
How will this happen? Easy, by making replacement cost too high, by making gasoline too expensive, the private citizen will attrition out of the market. When Gas is $25/Gallon, a $75 Autonomous taxi ride will be cost effective for commuting to work, especially because the most expensive part (the human driver) has been removed.
EVs are just one leg of the future of transportation stool...Enjoy your car while you can, but eventually, you will be unable to repair it, and off it will go forever....
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I love your magical way of thinking, except it couldn't be farther from the truth.
Take note...
Resources make the world economy tick....
Not tech.
To better expand on this just search GDP based on country and seek to find that countries Resources and production level.
To better see how tech has significant shortfalls that are definite..... chip shortages case and point.
Tech is a by product or oil and oils success.
Tech is cool to an extent, but that's where it stops.