Ghosn was pointing to the possibility of a fuzzy future in the 2020s, when the car industry might need to make more of its money from digital services provided to vehicles and less from making and selling the vehicles themselves. It is not entirely clear who will have the greatest control over the movies or business services streaming in and out of the self-driving cars. But Nissan, Volkswagen, and Ford didn’t kick off that self-driving future— Google did. At every turn, it now seems that anyone can enter any industry, using digital as a vector.
