It's just a hunch at this point, but I suspect the end game for personal transportation a few decades down the road will be government-provided rides.
Cities, counties, whatever municipal entities providing autonomous vehicles at subsidized rates, or maybe even "free". These are the entities paying for the infrastructure, after all, and once voters don't own vehicles, the argument will start to be made that governments should operate what what runs on the infrastructure.
But that's decades away, and there's money to be made now, in the current system. And Uber/Lyft/Google whoever else is in the business may provide the tech to the governments.
Anyway, like I said, it's just a hunch at this point, but it won't surprise me if things slowly move that way.
That's an interesting perspective. Honestly seems like a future I could get excited about, despite bureaucratic inefficiencies and edge cases of govt screwups.
A world where transit is dominated by things like Uber is a world where those who can't (or don't want to) afford $600 phones + $50/month service charges can't navigate a city.
Cities, counties, whatever municipal entities providing autonomous vehicles at subsidized rates, or maybe even "free". These are the entities paying for the infrastructure, after all, and once voters don't own vehicles, the argument will start to be made that governments should operate what what runs on the infrastructure.
But that's decades away, and there's money to be made now, in the current system. And Uber/Lyft/Google whoever else is in the business may provide the tech to the governments.
Anyway, like I said, it's just a hunch at this point, but it won't surprise me if things slowly move that way.