The Coming Golden Age of Automobiles — Sleeper Cars

Jim Fonseca
6 min readOct 15, 2022
Photo from plm.automation.siemens.com

I started this post because I read a lot about self-driving cars. It strikes me in my reading that very often the writers immediately jump to a future when we won’t own cars. They say things like ‘Generation Z (born 2001–2020) will be the last generation that owns a car.’

The consensus seems to be that we won’t need to own a car because these self-driving cars will be like…

Jim Fonseca

Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.