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> Overall car ownership will most likely take a large dip

It many cases it's not possible for people to do away with their cars.

So the political reality is that governments needs to ensure that people can afford to switch to EV (and that the infrastructure follows) or face riots if they make car-ownership impossible.

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Or make other changes that make it possible for more people to do away with cars- better mass transit, better pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, less urban sprawl, more condensed housing options, etc

Yeah, I suspect it's going to be more people packed into smaller areas, and massive investments in public transport infrastructure. There's going to be a lot of people who don't buy it.

The point is that there are many locations and situations where this is not really realistic, and that "more condensed housing" takes a century.

So practically and politically it is not possible to hit cars in general. Encourage alternatives where-ever possible but realise that there are not always alternatives and in those cases people should not be penalised for driving. Instead there should be support to transition to EV.

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