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Originally Posted by Grimfrost769
This sounds like some sort of industrial metal album and a terrible future. Damn bro. Kind of need to go do something fun after reading that suck parade lol.  |
dont read about GM's plans with their new mid engine corvette. It's getting a crazy networking system to replace canbus and MOST to allow constant connectivity and remote updating just like your cell phone and tesla do. Combine that with their love of killing right to repair and how every company wants to make you subscribe vs buy and when you do buy, license vs own.
That paints a very costly future with less choice and less incentive to own by both the purchaser and the consumer.
You dont have to go far to read about how wages aren't increasing with inflation, (unless you're a CEO and part of the 1%, then your wages increase many times that of inflation every year). Then the cost of housing is increasing faster than inflation even, and it becomes pretty clear people are going to have to make a choice of changing what they buy. First it will be housing, since the alternatives of transportation are more immediately impactful to everyday life than renting your home vs owning it. We already see renting exceeding home ownership with no sign of that slowing down or reversing.
Leasing cars is already growing and has been for a while, but the next logical step for this is people moving towards ride services instead of leasing. This is on the borderline of cost-effective for day to day use because of human drivers. Once automated driving systems begin taking over in cities it will quickly expand out to more remote areas with less controllable driving conditions. At that point, the cost of ride services will plummet or the cost of car insurance for driving your own car will skyrocket. Either way you're out of the drivers seat.
We already have the current generation looking at the cost benefit of cars and going WTF. You pay so much for a car you're only in a couple hours of a day and then have to pay so much to have it sit parked depreciating in value for the the rest of the time. Or you can uber for a fraction of the cost. It's not even a decision (or wont be soon).
Welcome to car enthusiast dystopia. I see no way to avoid it barring some kind of mad-max apocalypse.