http://www.marketwatch.com/story/get-ready-to-share-not-just-the-road-but-the-car-2015-12-14

Private car ownership is on the road to becoming a rarity

The utopian picture painted by the author may appeal to many but I am grateful that I shall have the liberty to maintain vehicles of my own and drive myself for as much longer as I have need of vehicles. Not much consideration is given to those of us in "flyover country" in this piece. West central Texas isn't Beijing. The author is short-sighted if he thinks that people will relinquish freedom of movement in such a way. Or, perhaps people don't value liberty as they once did.

Besides, I'm one of those "flat-earthers" the author derisively refers to and one who intensely disliked the picture painted in Orwell's "1984."

wonder if the author is the same who predicted that the global warming would render the planet unlivable by 2015.

Proud flat-earther here.

Sci-Fi makes for good entertainment but not for "news" articles. That whole hoverboard thing didn't work out so well.

No

In a place where everyone of driving age owns a car, (households may even have more cars than drivers) and public transit is for people that have lost their licenses due to OWI...no, I can't imagine such a reality.

well, i'm no less than 12.5% utilization of my car daily, and it is usually more than that. if I lived in a major city with great public transit, i'd be all for getting rid of it...but won't work in my neck of the woods...

There is absolutely no way I'm giving up my car, especially my "fun" car. NO WAY.

Flat-Earther!!!

<<<households may even have more cars than drivers

Cars on blocks in your front yard don't count Joker.

Turbines to speed!!!
Not giving up freedom to no PC painted future. ^_-

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And now on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire where my
White-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground as the turbo slows
To cross the borderline
Run like the wind as excitement shivers
Up and down my spine
But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me
An old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new
Has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We'll fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge

Well-oiled leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide
Oh, I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Ride like the wind
Straining the limits
Of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside

We live in Texas Noel!

5 drivers here, 7 cars,,,

3 drivers 3 vehicles

Two and two here, but they're both heavy gas-guzzlers so do I get extra credit?

2 divers and 5 cars... on that note, anyone looking to buy a car or 2?

Are you diving sub-compacts?

LOL! Good catch RebekahL.

Love me some big sky country!

Two drivers, but three vehicles if you count my John Deere mower.

I haven't had a car for about 4+ years, going on 5. Other than driving at 120 on the Thruway, I don't miss it.

I could never, ever live in NYC, or not own a car for that matter. Maybe when I'm old an senile, which is rapidly approaching, but until then I'll be doing 120 on the Thruway for you, ACBank.

I'm not ready to give up my car. I like driving, whether it's just around town or across the country.

Well if we're counting anything you can drive then I have to add my husbands Husqvarna riding lawnmower and his tractor. Oh yeah there is also my grand daughters battery operated four wheeler.