One thing I really worry about with the future of cars is ownership.<p>If you are renting your car, you cannot do as you like with it, and if you stop paying, you lose transportation.  Today, if you own a car it might be an absolute beater if you don&#x27;t maintain it, and it might be illegal to drive without insurance, but as long as you have gas, odds are it will actually run.<p>Further, I wonder about the subscription model as it is applied here.  Many people buy cheap cars outright because they don&#x27;t like ongoing payments.  If the future is a subscription model, it seems they can raise the price whenever they like (market forces aside).<p>While I think the whole concept of owning a car is definitely something in flux (as it should be), I hope the alternative is not just &quot;car + subscription&quot; and ultimately paying a higher price in the end.