Ah, understood. Fair point and one which I also touched on in mentioning other competitors for this space. I think this is especially true for Car2Go, which isn't conventionally seen as an Uber competitor, but which is perhaps better positioned to take advantage of self-driving vehicles because they already maintain fleets of custom vehicles and all that goes with that. I could definitely see some urban transit systems deciding to incorporate self-driving vehicles of varying capacities. That's an interesting angle.

So I well agree that Uber's technology, for which there are already multiple equivalents, isn't important. The contest will be entirely about business models and execution. IMO, that can be a lot harder to predict, at least without considerably more depth than I currently have on the players in this market.

I don't think cities are going to be buying self-driving cars like this. What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country? It makes more sense for a corporation to provide this service.

By and large, people seem to love Uber. If they fall out of favor, I think it would be more natural for competitors to put pressure on them to improve (or supplant them), not city governments.

> What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country?

They use the public transit available to them where they move to? Why would self-driving vehicles not be like the postal service, a business but also an essential service?

Just because I left Chicago doesn't mean I get to take the Metra and the CTA with me.