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I don't have an answer to your specific question but I do know ⅔ of all miles are driven in an urban environment in the USA. Urban is where the money is.

• jessriedel 11y ago
  I believe that's only true if you include suburban miles under "urban", i.e., everything but rural. So that statistic really doesn't speak to karpodiem's comment about city dwellers: > I'm interested in the birthrates for the 50-75th income percentile for living in major cities (not metropolitan areas).
  • rorykoehler 11y ago
    Yes suburban is included however I strongly believe that the average suburban dweller will be more than catered for with self-driving taxis once we hit saturation point. During the service growth years it will probably be inconvenient but as soon as we reach maturity owning a car will be the inconvenience.
    • jessriedel 11y ago
      Sure, but I'd agree with karpodiem that this is likely decades from now, i.e., more than 20 years before half of suburban households drop their car for a autonomous taxi service. Computers took over a decade to really penetrate. 10% of people owned a computer 20 years ago, but no uses a self-driving car today. Further, the financial and regulator roadblocks are much larger for cars than computers.
      • rorykoehler 11y ago
        It will take a while but perhaps now that everyone has a smartphone and is used to technology/ understands it's benefits, adoption rates will speed up.