Which then brings us to the transportation system. If you’ve been paying attention to the recent developments of autonomous vehicles, you’d know that several companies (Tesla, Uber, Lyft, etc.) have equally mentioned their vision of a future where privately-owned vehicles no longer existed. Instead, the future will consist of app-based fleets of autonomous vehicles that each individual will only need to pay a small, monthly subscription fee to gain 24/7 access.

What none of these companies are talking about, however, is the possibility of autonomous vehicles becoming their own self-owned organization, i.e. a DAO.

Imagine a fleet of app-based, solar-based autonomous vehicles operating in your city. Because they’re solar-based, they’ll be able to remain operational 24/7 without having to spend much time parked. What this entails is that, rather than a single vehicle operating for a single individual, a single vehicle will instead operate for several different individuals on a given day.

Whether you choose to pay a monthly subscription fee or simply pay-per-ride, the vehicle itself would require those payments to be done via cryptocurrencies. And as that vehicle accumulates crypto over time, it will also be able to use it to pay for its own repairs. If the vehicle were to break down, it could then easily contact a local repair shop to pick it up and pay them for their services.

Better yet, this fleet of DAO vehicles could also acquire its own DAO repair shop, of which would then provide its own autonomous services to anyone who needs it — whether it be its own vehicles or someone who still privately owns a vehicle themselves.

The point here is that the future of our transportation system might not require much human activity whatsoever. These organizations that are human-based could very well be easily usurped by intelligent, autonomous agents, i.e. artificial intelligence operating within the blockchain. In the future, the role of the human could very well be solely the role of the consumer.