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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
What's the lol for? Kind of all knowing and smug. That's my act, stop stealing it.
While cars will be made, who will now be deciding where the cars come from? Blockbuster sold the same movies that netflix did. In fact, people were spending more on movies than ever before. What changed is the delivery model. The TaaS companies will be buying in mass orders and individuals won't be (at least not to near the same extent). If the automakers don't have those relationships they'll be dead.
As for motive, it's simple: profit.
Let's use Netflix. Why did they invest in technology to save you money on consuming media? Companies are already investing billions in making transportation cheaper via scale and automation because its a potentially huuuuge industry.
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Netflix is a better and cheaper delivery method for movies that is easily adopted.
TaaS purchasing and maintaining millions of vehicles is a completely different thing.
You keep saying 'profit'. Is Car2Go profitable? Are cabs profitable? Is Uber profitable?
Their profitability (or lack of with Uber) doesn't mean they are suddenly more adopted. The big challenge here is the huge, macro-adoption that is being suggested.
I don't see that much adoption that quickly. And I sure as hell don't see profitability for the amount of capital outlay that would be required by the suggested scenario.