Interesting analysis. I disagree about the loss of repair shops, though. Cars will still need brakes, tires, wheel bearings, struts, etc. Replaced. Car repai

Interesting analysis. I disagree about the loss of repair shops, though. Cars will still need brakes, tires, wheel bearings, struts, etc. Replaced. Car repair will have to become much more sophisticated, though. When I was a college dropout I was an auto mechanic and while the job definitely appealed to the intellectual/engineer in me, most mechanics are incentivized to move volume, so they end up "throwing parts at the car" until it's fixed, then explain to the customer that "the crank sensor, the coil, AND the ECU were all bad! We had to replace them all!" In reality it was only the last part they replaced that fixed the problem, but it's not worth their time to swap the part back out the return it.