> Once you buy the self driving car, you will want it to be on the road as much as possible, you want return on investment.
This is not necessarily a given; after all, most Americans have other little-utilized equipment that nobody bothers to try to "rent out" to maximize usage. Think - washing machines, dish washers, lawn mowers, snow blowers, etc. In fact, there's an entire industry built around storing little-used equipment (storage units).
And we have high-usage vehicles transport already, they're called taxis and they're at use in most major cities; the AI cannot save MORE than the cost of the driver without some magical accounting.
Most of those things are dirt-cheap compared to a car. A better analogy would be a boat or an RV in a northern climate. Even those tend to be priced roughly in line with a higher end car (where you're more likely to find full self driving).
This is not necessarily a given; after all, most Americans have other little-utilized equipment that nobody bothers to try to "rent out" to maximize usage. Think - washing machines, dish washers, lawn mowers, snow blowers, etc. In fact, there's an entire industry built around storing little-used equipment (storage units).
And we have high-usage vehicles transport already, they're called taxis and they're at use in most major cities; the AI cannot save MORE than the cost of the driver without some magical accounting.