The idea that maybe you don’t have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

Steve Case is pointing to a shift from ownership to access: when a resource is expensive and used intermittently, consumers may prefer paying for temporary use rather than bearing the full costs of purchase, maintenance, and storage. By comparing occasional car use to real-estate time-sharing, he frames “car sharing” as a familiar economic logic—fractionalizing an asset so multiple users can capture its utility. The quote anticipates broader “sharing economy” models enabled by networks and platforms that reduce transaction friction (finding, booking, paying, trusting). It also implies cultural change: once people accept that convenience and availability can substitute for possession, markets can reorganize around services rather than products.