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Doesn't matter all car companies are toast, car sales are falling, iPhones have eclipsed cars as a status symbol among young people. Many of my friends no longe

Doesn't matter all car companies are toast, car sales are falling, iPhones have eclipsed cars as a status symbol among young people. Many of my friends no longer have cars. The ones successfully migrating to autopilot Uber style service have a bright future. Mercedes and BMW have the most successful in Germany (they merged their operations), so the real next decade competitor of BMW is Uber/Lyft not Tesla. I guess it depends on how good autopilots will be (and there are rumors Musk really wants to to move into that space and Tesla is the means to do that). If Google and Apple and Amazon get into that space, I guess consumers would choose their service over a BMW/Mercedes company though - they have the better tech brand and people would rather get into a driverless Apple/Google product than BMW/Mercedes. Most people in this thread write from a US centric view where people live a long way outside of cities so they can't imagine what's coming.

MuffinFlavored 8y ago
> iPhones have eclipsed cars as a status symbol among young people uhh... People use their iPhone to go on Instagram and like photos of people with $300k cars. I pinky promise.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  Let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=cars+no+longer+status+symbol https://www.google.com/search?q=cars+no+longer+status+symbol https://www.google.com/search?q=iphones%20have%20cars%20status%20symbols https://www.google.com/search?q=iphones%20have%20cars%20stat...
  - MuffinFlavored 8y ago
    You are literally talking to somebody born in the 90s that 1,000% sees cars as a status symbol, and all of my friends do too. If we see a modern Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, or McLaren, we all pay mental respect to the owner/driver because we know what depreciation + upkeep cost for that driver. A $15/hr call center rep leasing a $27/mo $699 iPhone for 18 months is so far from the scale of $300k supercar that it makes me physically angry to have to write back to this.
    - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
      "[...] physically angry to have to write back to this"

MuffinFlavored 8y ago

> iPhones have eclipsed cars as a status symbol among young people uhh... People use their iPhone to go on Instagram and like photos of people with $300k cars. I pinky promise.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=cars+no+longer+status+symbol https://www.google.com/search?q=cars+no+longer+status+symbol https://www.google.com/search?q=iphones%20have%20cars%20status%20symbols https://www.google.com/search?q=iphones%20have%20cars%20stat...
- MuffinFlavored 8y ago
  You are literally talking to somebody born in the 90s that 1,000% sees cars as a status symbol, and all of my friends do too. If we see a modern Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, or McLaren, we all pay mental respect to the owner/driver because we know what depreciation + upkeep cost for that driver. A $15/hr call center rep leasing a $27/mo $699 iPhone for 18 months is so far from the scale of $300k supercar that it makes me physically angry to have to write back to this.
  - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
    "[...] physically angry to have to write back to this"