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user-inactivated · 3963 days ago · link · · parent · post: Imagine: A World Where Nobody Owns Their Own Car
I disagree with your premise here. Some people will always regard cars as status symbols and others will always regard them as transportation utility maximizers. Besides, if anything we're trending away from the American car fetish (or more likely it's taking a different form). Kids don't generally grow up familiar with cars anymore, they don't build their own, they don't maintain their own ... it's just much rarer. So to some people (an increasing number), one car is much the same as another. Not to say we'll all share cars in futuris; that's an odd conclusion to come to as well. But I think we'll care less and less if our cars drive themselves.Cars were status symbols even in the soviet union.