re: Economist Predicts Fossil Fuel Vehicles No Longer Sold In 8 Years

I've always felt cost and range were the greatest barriers to adoption.

I expected to read an article that was outlandish like those Disney World esque "World of Tommorw" futurist forecasts from the 50's.

But this is actually a lot more reasonable then I expected and offers some good point.

My only counter, a big one, is that I do expect that oil companies, and natural market forces, will likely push oil prices down as preferences shift, which I think should drag out that sort of adoption into a longer timeframe. And I think it is difficult to see rural areas of the country being able to move into that sort of model of ride sharing, total autonomous vehicles, and the necessary infrastructure.