Uber President Predicts Driver’s Licenses Will Disappear Within 20 Years

Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald said on the “20VC” podcast that personal car ownership will be nearly nonexistent within 15 to 20 years and driver’s licenses will no longer be necessary. He said autonomous vehicles, bicycles, scooters and public transportation will become the main means of getting around.

The significance is that Uber’s president sees personal car ownership and driver’s licenses no longer being a given 15 to 20 years from now, and cited bicycles, scooters and public transportation, along with autonomous vehicles, as means of getting around. By connecting a future in which people travel without owning cars to the company’s long-term strategy, his remarks offer insight into which forms of transportation ride-hailing companies are seeking to incorporate.