the convergence of and coordination among services business models and disparate actors in todays rapidly evolving mobility landscape may lead to a situation where consumers no longer purchase and use vehicles or depend solely on providers of traditional public transport services to get around perhaps more telling is that out of of the worlds largest automobile manufacturers and four out of the top five have announced a new focus on mobility services rather than depending only or sometimes even principally on vehicle sales and maintenance in some cases manufacturers have stated that a shift to selling mobility services to consumers will gradually become their core strategic focus eg ford daimler psa other companies beyond the automotive industry have announced visions that centre on rolling out fleets of shared and perhaps automated vehicles that will obviate the need for car ownership in many cities eg lyft uber and waymo