Services such as Uber are seeing more demand, but travelling in personal vehicles will remain popular, writes Pertunia Sibanyoni
The increase in ride-sharing could lead to far lower distances driven in personal vehicles, meaning far better conditions of vehicles at the time of trade-in. Picture: DENIS DROPPA
Here in SA, and many other regions where mobility cultures are worlds apart from those in aforementioned locations, I predict a much different future — or at least for the next 10-20 years. While there’s no doubt that services such as Uber and Bolt have proven successful business models and foreshadow what could come of ride-sharing as even cleverer technologies are introduced, I see these as supplementary to private vehicle ownership, not in competition with.
All of that said, I do predict some changes to the complexion of the private-vehicle population in the next decade. As electrification comes to the fore and advanced driver assistance and connected technologies are introduced, there will be a greater divide between feature-rich, high-end vehicles and more budget-friendly commodity cars.Instead of multiple body style and engine configurations from single vehicle platforms, model lines will be rationalised into more sensible catalogues.
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