The OP asked for a contingency, I would still like to participate and witness how it all plays out.

Go to a monastery, live in spirituality, mushrooms for breakfast and astral project into another dimension.

I am from the automotive industry, founded some start ups based in the transportation sector. The level of bureaucracy, politics and regulation is a huge monopoly.

The whole environment argument is heavily flawed in each sector, from energy, design & engineering, manufacturing and the heavy reliance in the global supply chain. One fundamental issue as you quite right pointed out is the existing requirement to the reformation of the transportation infrastructure, road networks and so on, it’s simply a mammoth task that extends way beyond the narrative of “EV vehicles” and “self driving”

What was once an opportunistic investment landscape has now shifted global interests elsewhere focusing on building the “meta” world and expanding on consumables such “digital” goods over physical items. In the next decade we will see extraordinary changes to the way of life “as we currently know it” Ai is just the beginning and we are witnessing the birth of the 5 Industrial Revolution going into the year 2030.

You’re definitely not alone. A lot of people do not have the ability to conceptualise potential, history shows this over and over

Probably a high integration of VR, that is made more accessible and easy to operate, agree that cloud computing could accelerate as it adopts Ai efficiencies. Advanced NPC's that will nearly feel human like to interact and talk to. Perhaps games where an AI will build the world as you play a long, giving the player and character an expanded idea of ''free will'' whilst in the game.

It’s only just the beginning… these Ais will be building our entire future worlds, mostly in the meta space. I guess the whole ideals leading up to 2030 doesn’t sound so far fetched after all