&gt; Personal cars are going the way of the dodo.<p>I have to laugh every time I read such statements.  It&#x27;s like the man who invented the apartment claiming houses now obsolete.  Price is not always the driving force.   If it were, SUVs would not exist, nor would BMW, Merc, Ferrari any every other performance car brand.<p>Cars are as much personal statements as houses, probably more so.  Relatively few people see you in your house, but everyone sees which car you drive.  Setting aside the robot driver debates, these are fashion items.  Society isn&#x27;t going to abandon such vanities simply to better leverage a new technology.