It game is on as to who can move the most behinds and items the most miles—no longer who can sell the most cars. Rapidly approaching are driverless ride-shared cabs, trucks and delivery vehicles.

All automakers now call themselves mobility companies. They are building computers with wheels that will move about in a networked cloud of radio signals.

Ford executive Jim Hackett describes it as “the Transportation Mobility Cloud - that will enable vehicles, bicycles and mass transit to communicate. The vehicles and bikes - even city stoplights and signs - will all communicate with each other through a system that Ford calls “Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything.”

Question: Peek into the future. How do you see this affecting Detroit [=our auto industry] and Detroit [=Metro Detroit community]? How do you think it will affect you?

For instance, every house on a typical street has two, sometimes more cars. Could I see going down to one car if the others were replaced with a fleet of, say, five cooperatively-owned driverless cars? Hmmm…