[mortenjorck]

There’s a third possible future, where a significant number of individuals buy autonomous vehicles as investments, effectively renting them out on a rideshare aggregator as one might buy an investment property to rent out.

However, this aggregator almost certainly won’t be Uber or Lyft. It’s very unlikely that the time between now and ubiquitous, consumer-level AVs will be shorter than the time before Uber is acquired by Verizon for pennies on the dollar.