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Former GM chairman Bob Lutz says the end of the car industry is near
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AKIPRESS.COM - Bob Lutz, the former vice chairman of General Motors, believes the auto industry is not long for this world.

“It saddens me to say it, but we are approaching the end of the automotive era,” he writes this month for Automotive News.

Our daily travel, he predicts, will migrate to standardized passenger modules as the demolition of the traditional auto industry accelerates.

Within five years, he expects, people will start selling their cars for scrap or trade them in for autonomous passenger modules as self-driving cars take over transportation.

Within 20 years, human-driven vehicles will be legislated off highways. 

“The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command,” he writes. “You will call for it, it will arrive at your location, you’ll get in, input your destination and go to the freeway.”

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