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1-Auto repair shops will disappear.
2-A petrol/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only repaired by dealers.
3-Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots.
5-Petrol pumps will go away.
Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.
7-Smart major auto manufacturers designated money to build new plants that only build electric cars.
9-Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid.
10-A baby of today will only see personal cars in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.
13-Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again?
16-Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.
18-UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.
20-Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.
21-In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds,
23-Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
You won't want to own a car anymore, you will call a car with your phone, it'll show up at your location and drive you to your destination
27-About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles
28-Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car,
29-Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all electric/hybrid only
30-Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.