Policymakers the world over are waking up to the power of electric road transportation. The problem is, they’re focusing on the wrong metrics.
Like it or not, autonomous cars are coming right around the corner, and even the most committed motorheads will soon see the (electric) light.
RethinkX believes that within 10 years of widespread approval of autonomous vehicles, the vast majority of the population will give up individual ownership of vehicles for transportation as a service, provided by on-demand electric autonomous vehicles owned and operated by fleets.
It wouldn’t be a selling point for most consumers who average just 10k miles per year in their cars. Who wants a car that lasts 100 years? Could you imagine an advert for a car that lasts forever?
In 1911, Ferdinand Foch, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces during World War I, once famously said, “Airplanes are interesting toys, but have no military value.”
