That latter point is something I think very few people in urban living situations understand. My car is, if I am to misappropriate a term, a 'safe space'. It's like an offshoot of my house I bring with me elsewhere. If there's something I don't carry on my person regularly, but might need, it's probably in my car. My car is a space that I own, that I control, and of course, can lock myself inside. And my car instantly affords me the ability to move myself away from where I am, and to something else.

My comfort level is based in part on either being in walking distance to my house or to my car.

Not to mention people who use their vehicles as a hobby - be it in motorsport, vintage restoration, or whatever.

Electric cars and Automation will do the same to conventional cars as the automobile did to horses. Cars didn't bring on the horsepocalypse, it just created a new enthusiast industry around them as opposed to being a mainstream transport industry.

I'm not so sure. I think when people figure out how much money they are going to save by switching to an EV you could see a rapid uptake.