The private car is – like the smartphone – a device of immense practical help and economic significance, but at the same time a theatre for myths of unattainable self-fulfilment. The sleek and swift electric car is at one level merely the most contemporary fantasy of autonomy and power. The electric cars of the future will be so thoroughly equipped with sensors and reaction mechanisms that they will never hit anyone. The logical outcome of cars which need no driver is that they will become cars which need no owner either. The ultimate development of the private car will be to reinvent public transport.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2017 17:37 UTC