There's a growing proportion of people that just don't use car at all. Insurance is more expensive for young drivers, younger people are spending an all-time in education. And of course, you don't have to rise taxi apps, which means that those kind of short trips are a lot easier to do without your own car. Do you see these trends continuing even if it's just a sort of vocal minority at the moment? It's just a matter of generational change. But there's a few things that I wonder about. You see cars turning electric and that does reduce some of the worries about pollution but they're also cheaper to drive. So if electric vehicles get so cheap then you
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