Your car is only second in the place you feel comfortable to your home. I'm at work all day (pre covid) and my home is sitting empty 50% of the time, so why should I own a home, maybe I can just sleep in a shared fractionally owned home.
Never going to be accepted, by all means electrify cars and make them smarter and have robotaxis for when I can't drive. But the car ownership thing will never go away.
Your use case is probably different. But the vehicle parked outside my house is one:
- Whose features I very deliberately chose
- Has a roof rack that can accommodate my canoe and/or kayak
- Has all the stuff I carry around with me--especially for northern winter driving
And if I want to run to the store right now, I can be on the road in 1 minute. I don't want fractional ownership and I'm sure I'm not unusual. Most of the depreciation is in the miles anyway. And, to the degree it becomes more related to how old the car is, that will be reflected in the costs.
They are almost always stationary parked somewhere when privately owned.