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by syntheweave 1455 days ago
If I can hire a robotaxi, I never need to own a vehicle larger than what I need to commute; I can just fill up a rented vehicle with whatever cargo I'm hauling, let the taxi chauffeur the kids to school, etc.

Today's auto fleets are idle 95% of the time, because everyone overspecs capacity for the worst case. Marginal level 4 self-driving is sufficient to disrupt this. The savings in being able to downsize personal vehicles and hand off logistics to a third party are huge for individuals and also improve land use - hunting for parking space disappears, and every parking lot can subsequently downsize too.