[antisthenes]

It will happen slowly, through raising the price of individual vehicles (you can already see the trend with electric vehicles - there are almost no affordable sub $30k cars), raising the price of insuring a human-driven vehicle, etc.

It won't happen overnight, and probably take anywhere between 30-50 years, but it's definitely possible in the long term.

[rsj_hn]

The problem with that theory is that auto manufacturers face declining average costs and so are incentivized to produce more cars and sell them for a lower unit price.

This is why the only source of auto inflation is by adding more features to the car. I don't see any reason why this would change in the future.

For EVs, wait until cheap Chinese EVs flood the US market.