The Decline of the Private Car

Emily Badger, reporting for the Atlantic Cities:

“We’re probably closer to the end of the automobility era than we are to its beginning,” says Maurie Cohen, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “If we’re 100 years into the automobile era, it seems pretty inconceivable that the car as we know it is going to be around for another 100 years.”

We’ve been so focused on what’s next for the automobile—electric, hydrogen, etc.—that we’re not looking out for what comes after the automobile.

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