Main Paineframe posted:Not necessarily! Some techno-utopianists and techno-libertarians think that the endgame of self-driving cars is people's own private self-driving cars acting as taxis when their owner isn't using them - dropping you off at work, then running off to transport people around all day until you finish work, at which point it returns to act as your car for a while; once you're done and go home for the night, it ventures off into the dark to go haul drunks around. A few of the craziest ones even think it'll replace public transport. It sounds stupid as hell, but it's basically exactly Uber's business model, except that the owner doesn't have to be in the car, and it's done while the owner is busy rather than during their free time. That's almost certainly Uber's goal - rather than maintaining their own fleet of robot cars, they'll market a robo-Uber service to driverless car owners, serenading them with sweet talk about their car going out and earning them some bonus cash all on its own while they're working or sleeping. Nothing like driving to work Friday morning with 8 hour old puke covering your back seat.
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