[Steve XC60]

The day will come when the cost of insurance to drive yourself will be too high and so no one will do it. We’ll look back on the days we once drove cars (aka horseless carriages) the same way we look back on the days of horse riding and the cart and blacksmiths and the great horse manure crisis of 1894 (yes that was a real thing). When that day comes, the vehicles on the roads will be used 95% of the time, rather than 5% of the time and so they will only need to last a few years. We won’t own them as they will be owned by big corporate mobility providers. Travelling in them will be free, as long as we agree to be bombarded by advertising while in them. We’ll be actively encouraged to feed our addiction to smart phones while in them. We are the test pilots of those future vehicles and Uber drivers are cheap labour building the network.

I enjoy driving and I like my car. I am sure if I had lived 120 years ago, I would have been sorry to see my horse go too.