When will electric cars become available?

How many people will choose not to own cars as taxi services using self-driving cars become increasingly available?

• What will the future look like? Will Uber and Lyft benefit? Will self-driving cars make taxi services so much cheaper that people will choose them instead of cars?

• Answer:

  Well, right now owning a car outright is the most expensive option for most people who have them compared to taxis, transit, walking, etc. Yet people own their own cars in droves. You have to stop thinking of cars as a transportation utility and think of them the way that other people do: Status Freedom A giant purse or backpack Privacy Asset Decoration Collectible I don't own a car. I may never own one again. But that's because I live in places where I can walk, Solowheel, carshares, subway, taxi, bikeshare, etc. Self-driving cars just add a wrinkle to taxis and carshares for me, and many, many other people. The bigger move away from cars is urban densification. Young people are opting out of car ownership and even driver's licences in droves because of all of the transportation options I outlined. Driverless cars will barely register.