The thing the will benefit driverless vehicles is the increasing poverty of the middle class. As wages continue to stagnate, more and more people will be unable to handle the capital costs of new cars.
Nobody will ever choose driverless Uber-like cars for a long time. Paying by the drink (ie paying the $0.60-0.80 + margin that it costs to operate a car) will never be a good deal for the consumer. People will rent because they need to.
The current situation with Uber and Lyft is an exception. Uber has revealed itself to be a criminal enterprise and both companies rely on VC subsidy and pushing liability to operators to survive. That’s not a model that will stand the test of time.
Nobody will ever choose driverless Uber-like cars for a long time. Paying by the drink (ie paying the $0.60-0.80 + margin that it costs to operate a car) will never be a good deal for the consumer. People will rent because they need to.
The current situation with Uber and Lyft is an exception. Uber has revealed itself to be a criminal enterprise and both companies rely on VC subsidy and pushing liability to operators to survive. That’s not a model that will stand the test of time.