This is wrong of course. Imagine you could hire a driver, now imagine he worked for free and was always at his best driving ability.
The things that self driving cars will do first, really really well, are:
1) Drive people around who currently use chauffers because they can use the driving time productively.
2) Lower the barrier to attending events, restaurants, etc in urban areas where parking is an issue. (if you car can go park itself a couple of miles away and you can phone it up when you want to go home, win)
3) Reduce the number of DUI accidents as people go out, have a good time, and their car drives them home.
Self driving cars that can drive amongst human driven cars will be a huge win. Now why a search company would do with that, who knows.
> 2) Lower the barrier to attending events, restaurants, etc in urban areas where parking is an issue. (if you car can go park itself a couple of miles away and you can phone it up when you want to go home, win)
It lowers the barrier on travel in another way too. Put a comfortable bed in the self driving car and anywhere within 8 hours drive is now a night's sleep away. Weekend tourism would be a lot more fun that way.
The things that self driving cars will do first, really really well, are: 1) Drive people around who currently use chauffers because they can use the driving time productively. 2) Lower the barrier to attending events, restaurants, etc in urban areas where parking is an issue. (if you car can go park itself a couple of miles away and you can phone it up when you want to go home, win) 3) Reduce the number of DUI accidents as people go out, have a good time, and their car drives them home.
Self driving cars that can drive amongst human driven cars will be a huge win. Now why a search company would do with that, who knows.