The car companies want to get rid of cars that last 10 to 15 years and stand idle much of their lives. Here is what they have in mind, from Eric Peters at theburningplatform.com:
If you’ve been wondering what’s behind the electric car/automated car push, Ford’s John Rich just let the cat out of the sack:
“We will exhaust and crush a car every four years in this business.”
That business being the automated/electric car business.
Rich should know, since he’s the head of Ford’s Autonomous Vehicles Operations. He really means automated, of course – since the very last thing the cars he’s talking about are is autonomous.
Look it up for yourself.
Autonomous means independent from external control. 
Nothing could be lessautonomous than a car entirely under the control of the governmental-industrial combine which lays downs the operating parameters (via the programming) of the car, over which you have no control whatsoever. How do you control a car without a steering wheel, brake or accelerator pedal?
A car you don’t even own?
