this is an issue that will need attention worldwide. there's a huge cottage industry of small businesses built up around motor vehicle service. lubrication, muffler shops, transmission shops, mechanics, emissions certification shops and others i don't even know.

i think there needs to be a plan in place for what all those people are going to do with new vehicle technology that only requires a tenth of the service.

if governments mandate transitions to technologies that take away the life's work and livelihoods of people and simply ignore the fact that it's happening, those who lose everything will take political action to get it back. we've already seen some of this and it has not been pretty.