[Aurornis]

> Car ownership won't be a thing

Car ownership definitely isn’t going away. Sharing a vehicle with the general public gets old fast if you have the means to avoid it.

There are also many reasons people use cars for more than going from point A to point B on a purely transactional basis. Many professions need to leave things in the car or truck like tools or even your laptop. Having to take everything you own into every building in case the self-driving car gets called back home for service or whatever isn’t going to work.

[xnx]

Google is exploring bringing the Waymo driver to privately owned cars as well.

[Zigurd]

That's probably a thought experiment in business models. Like a franchise. Waymo is experimenting with Uber as it's retailer, essentially. Personally, I'd prefer to do business with Waymo, directly.

If the cost of the Waymo Driver hardware falls to the point where it's not prohibitive for the low duty cycle of a private vehicle, I could see that eventually happening.