Car affordability in 2022 and beyond

That's what's hard about this.

Vehicles are really only useful to society if they can do their hauling jobs safely and without poisoning us. But they aren't accessible to us unless they're cheap enough.

I'm okay with old school low tech easy-to-repair vehicles that run relatively dirty... as long as the overall fleet size is capped very low, which makes access to them difficult and expensive.

And on the flip side, I'm also okay with an unlimited number of clean-running safe vehicles, but those are difficult and expensive to produce in the first place.

This is a problem that the industry can eventually solve, but they need time to work through a few thousand more profitable alternatives first.