OP needs to get out of the echo chamber and do some research. The two cities used as example--SF and NY--are the two of very few major cities in the world wher

OP needs to get out of the echo chamber and do some research. The two cities used as example--SF and NY--are the two of very few major cities in the world where owning a car is not considered that sexy. In most cities (other than SF or NY) of the world, people think of owning an expensive car as a status symbol. Sure, self driving cars may introduce some changes, but that's never going to make owning an expensive car "unsexy". Instead, the car brands will evolve and adapt. These idiots who talk about how self driving cars will make owning a car obsolete are only thinking of cars as something that gets them from A to B. The car companies who think of themselves that way will probably die off, and the ones who survive will be the ones who think of themselves as a "third space".