You are still allowed to opt out.
For now.
Many places "going to the corner store" is a 20 minute drive. I still remember going up to long island to visit a friend, and we wanted to eat. The absolutely closest place to get food was a 45 minute walk each direction.
Around 92% of US households have a car. Comparing to Europe Italy is around 89%, Germany 85%, France 83$, Spain 79%, and UK 74%.
Unless those countries are also restricting mixed living/business areas they suggest that there is some other more general factor that drives (no pun intended) people to car ownership. US zoning might explain why US car ownership is higher than in Europe but seems unlikely to explain more than maybe 20% of US car ownership.
At least for the remainder of my life, I recon. (I'm in my 40s.)
(I say this as someone who is emphatically of the opinion that we should be less reliant on cars!)
If everyone goes that way then consumers are screwed.
Then inevitably after 10-20 years there will be enough anger that congress will do something about it, but in the mean time the original execs all lived like fat cats and danced into the sunset. Yippee!
For now, there are a lot of used cars and my plan is to get good ones and drive them.
I can't wait! The auto makers will deserve everything they get for going down this road.
>You are still allowed to opt out.
>For now.
Opting out of consumerism is probably the most subversive thing most people can do.
More broadly, business models should only rely on recurring revenue streams for products that are receiving nontrivial updates or for which there are demand-based costs.
Presumably where this gets murky is with AI features, where inference costs are high and one-time fees aren't sufficient or appropriate.
When you need service from the same company that made your car, dealerships can be a life saver. (Not all of them, of course. YMMV.)