If private property is the defining characteristic of a capitalist system, then the privately owned automobile is the signature item. The very term auto mobile conveys the classical economic idea that human nature is driven by the quest for autonomy and mobility ... The privately owned automobile, ... is falling victim to the distributed, laterally scaled opportunities of car sharing ... The shift in personal mobility from ownership to access ... is likely to quicken ... with the introduction of driverless vehicles ... Google ... has already racked up 300,00 miles of testing driverless vehicles. Why would anyone want to ownand maintain an automobile when they could access a driverless vehicle from car-sharing service at a moments notice from their cell phone ... ? From: The Zero Marginal Cost Society, by Jeremy Rifkin, Palgrave,Macmillan, April, 2014, pp225-231.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:12:11 +0000
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