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What we need is easily accessible rental cars for when we really need them. Private cars and jets should never have been a thing...
Maybe with self-driving cars it'll be more doable as the cars can drive themselves to-and-from their hubs and charging point, etc.
But we're still a while away from that being widely achievable.
In Europe the roads and parking are nightmare in most places, so I'm not really a huge fan of it, but it's really the only option for freedom for the foreseeable future.
Sadly the likeliest outcome will just be governments continuing to make it more and more expensive to get a licence, own and insure a car, drive in cities or on motorways, etc. until it becomes the reserve of the wealthy again, just like they're steadily doing with air fares too (increasing air fuel duty whilst exempting private jets). So the rich can drive their SUVs and private jets whilst the working class are trapped in overcrowded cities, in their tiny pod apartments eating bugs all in the name of the environment.
Much better is to eliminate the need for a car. Good public transport would make a massive difference.
If you had 100% rentals, the amount of cars on the road stays the same because everyone needs the at the same rush hours.
We should be incentivizing work from home. E.g. require an extra 1 hour of pay per for any employee that needs to be on site. We’d soon see how essential offices are.