Detroit must die / American cars are still uniformly god-awful. Why save them?
Here’s the upshot: The American auto market is the biggest in the world. Our near-religious adoration of cars isn’t vanishing anytime soon. There are hundreds of billions of dollars still to be made. Let prehistoric Big Auto die now, put the old, tired, sickly circus elephant out of its misery, and watch what happens. Innovation would skyrocket. Entrepreneurs would flood in. New and pioneering car companies — or better yet, radical new ideas for urban human transport — would flourish. New jobs would be created almost instantly. Those supply chains wouldn’t vanish, they’d adapt. The American auto industry would convulse, struggle, acclimate, reinvent itself anew.
