"Uber pays 75% of its earnings to its drivers. How much cheaper could a driverless be? 50% less?" Remember that from that 75% is supposed to be things like ins

"Uber pays 75% of its earnings to its drivers. How much cheaper could a driverless be? 50% less?" Remember that from that 75% is supposed to be things like insurance policies and such, and I suspect that currently drivers aren't bothering to properly insure their cars (using it for a business rather than personal use). In a driverless car case, someone is going to have to pay for that insurance, whether the manufacturer, operator or rider, that cost is going to come from someplace, and will probably be significant. I'm not sure that you could achieve 50% savings, and maybe not even 25%. "All it takes is half of Manhattan's car-owning households to switch for Manhattan to hit a 7-fold reduction in car ownership from present-day America." But what does that prove? Manhattan isn't a great barometer of anything. Even if they did drop to 14% or so, that's not really moving the needle much either way, is it?