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Feb 17, 2025 5 min

The Year Humans Stopped Owning Cars

from Fire Zaza

What if the biggest financial mistake you could make in the next five years was buying a car? In 2025, something quietly broke. Insurance premiums doubled overnight, parking in major cities became more expensive per square foot than Manhattan office space, and a new generation reached driving age asking a question their parents never considered: “Why would I ever own this thing?” This episode is the story of the tipping point. We go inside the households that sold their last car in 2025 and never looked back, the insurance actuary who predicted the exact month personal car ownership would collapse for anyone under 40, and the 28-year-old former Tesla owner who now clears $11,000 a month renting out the two parking spaces he used to waste on his own vehicles.

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