Let me put on my predictor hat for the future

Here are the waves to come:

1) Within 10 years: self driving cars.  They are here now but soon they will be everywhere. Get in the car; tell the autopilot where to go on their internal JPS and the car will do the driving for you. Accidents will decrease. No more idiots on the road, road rage and no more learning how to drive. Just press a button.

2) Within 20 years no more fossil fuel engines, all cars will be electric and legislation will be passed to remove any legacy cars and vehicles from the road. What will be an even larger boost to this would be if the Federal Government instead of putting money into a stupid carbon tax, ordered a large company like Canada Post to begin switching its fleet to all electric vehicles. While it will take years to switch over all the vehicles they need to use, it will spur the development of electrical vehicles and the cost will drop as production increases. Thereby increasing the sales to individuals as the price drops into the affordability range for most consumers.

3) Within 50 years self owning a car will be obsolete. We will rent electric, self driving cars by the hour and there will be no need for parking spaces or even the extensive road network. The private car will only be for the rich and eccentric. When you look at your car, you drive it to work and back. Leaving it parked and literally doing nothing for 99% of its existence. This will stop as people take the car instead of the bus. Public transportation will also change as it will compete against a hybrid for of Uber or Lyft that will offer trips for near the same fare as a bus. And subscription services like the monthly pass for public transit.

Traffic jams will no longer be a problem as self driving cars will be able to avoid creating such chaos on the roads. Just like today, when you give map directions to millennials, they don’t understand any of it. They will just program their GPS. So a lot of the problems with roads, fossil fuel and parking are transitory at best, the clock is ticking for their exit from existence.