This is like talking about "de"Platforming... why doesn't anyone talk about how these people GOT their platform and why people kept giving them a platform? Capitalism.
"re"Possess? How about talking about Possessing in the first place?
Why do we have so much "garbage" parked on our streets, namely cars that are owned but not used?
Just like the American Dream of owning a home (and working 30 years to pay the money you rented to do that), or De Beers diamonds, or College, or whatever, there is a concerted effort to make you crave that thing and make that big-ticket purchase. Mainly to give into all the social pressure mechanisms.
The car manufacturer industry relies on this kind of stuff -- to sell more cars. And sometimes they dial it to an 11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8
And the fossil fuel industry had relied for decades on colluding with them to make sure cars are locked into one type of fuel (fossil fuels). All your other appliances have long ago been able to take electricity -- so they can be powered by hydro, geothermal, solar, wind, nuclear fission, and even fusion as soon as it's enabled. But not cars, no.
And government of course worked hand-in-hand with industry to subsidize fossil fuels and delay electric cars and battery tech: https://vimeo.com/547118547
The only people that this article would alarm are those who believe they want to own a self-driving car. Most people would just time-share them, and self-driving cars would be operated by Uber (another hyper-capitalist company that currently takes 50% of all drivers' wages, but soon the robots will replace them so it won't be an issue).
And we would finally have less parked cars on the streets, open more lanes, and the cities can become more beautiful.