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  • Autonomous cars are a viable future state that ends car ownership and promotes cars as a per journey device, not a per owner device.

    People like owning their own car which doesn't have other people's germs in and has their special stuff in the boot (I always have a towel and swimming trunks just in case I find somewhere interesting to swim).

    Autonomous cars will be a disaster when they circle the block while the owner is at the dentist rather than pay for a parking spot.

  • .... germs and swimming kits ...

    Autonomous cars will be a disaster when they circle the block while the owner is at the dentist rather than pay for a parking spot.

    But once they exist as an alternative then it is viable to regulate or price personal ownership out of mass usage.

    Until such an alternative exists how do you end car ownership?

  • Road pricing for a start. We have the technology, we don't have the political desire.

    I don't really care about car ownership, I care about car (over) use.

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