> Much has been said about the ways we expect our oncoming fleet of driverless cars to change the way we live—remaking us all into passengers, rewiring our econ

> Much has been said about the ways we expect our oncoming fleet of driverless cars to change the way we live—remaking us all into passengers, rewiring our economy, retooling our views of ownership, and reshaping our cities and roads. "retooling our views of ownership" ? What have self-driving cars to do with car ownership? If the global economy works there will be always ownership, there will always be companies from somewhere that will sell cars. It's like the WWW, you can put up paywalls, but there will always be another site powered by another business model (eg ads) that cater the users. Or you can still buy traditional light bulbs, and ironically the two companies that lobbied to ban light bulbs closed down their respective business units and focus on something else. Recently John Deer and Tesla vehicles have some kind dongle/software-as-a-service thing, where you have to register your vehicle with an account - that can limit the after-sale value/business. For every company that follows that plan, there will be x other vehicle manufacturers elsewhere that stay with the normal business model.