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I doubt it. Relying on taxi services (driven by humans or computers) might work fine for childless urbanites. But I keep a lot of stuff in my car, and there's no way I'm going to waste time loading and unloading a taxi every day. Plus my family likes having a nice clean car. I'm never going to give up convenience and time savings just to save a little money.

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I fully agree with you. Another argument against this ride sharing that most people conveniently forget are peak times. How many millions of vehicles are standing still during office hours only to power up when everyone needs to go home? How is a robotaxi service going to solve that? The number of cars on the roads at peak times won’t go down much imo.

Peak times are already constrained by road capacity.

That said just having smart buses picking crusing and picking up people when and where they are and dropping them off at their destination would be great. (After all usually a lot of people want to go from similar A to similar B places at the same time.)

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