Comment Re: What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article (Score 1) 477
shared between a number of individuals (like one car per family, once the father has reached work he sends the car back home so that the mother can take the kid to kindergarden, etc).
My personal prediction is that, once self-driving cars become a majority, the desire to own a car will be reduced drastically (especially in urban areas.) Instead, people will belong to "auto clubs", which will maintain a fleet of the vehicles. With a monthly membership fee you get X rides/miles; the fee includes insurance, and since insurance rates will drop drastically for those who allow their car to primarily auto-drive, I think that some auto insurance companies will actually be the ones to start these auto clubs (perhaps partnering with a car rental company, maybe even some of the mechanic chains will join in, like Big O Tires or Jiffy Lube, since electric vehicles will eventually be the majority as well and they'll start to lose a lot of business in regular maintenance visits.)
You can pay an extra amount to reserve a particular car and/or pickup time. Otherwise, you use your phone app to order a car to your current or a nearby location, and the car sends you a text when it's outside.
There will also be non-auto cars, and there will be people who own cars (both auto and non), but these will become collectors/upper class things. I can see a larger family, like a generational household where you have kids, parents, grandparents, maybe an aunt or uncle, with their own, personal auto or two.