I am not surprised if Uber is going in this direction. In fact, looking at what Uber has done so far , Uber has already planned for this sort of future in 10-2

I am not surprised if Uber is going in this direction. In fact, looking at what Uber has done so far , Uber has already planned for this sort of future in 10-20 years. Look at what Uber has done: * Uber buys Nokia Here Maps for their map part and for their street imagery part. * Uber hires robotics department. * Uber knows today's business is supposed to be the transition phase to going into a zipcar like car-on-demand service. There aren't too many data points here, but the only thing I can glean from this is Uber wants to have robotic cars to pick you up and drop you off and will plan that future by storing street imagery, instead of that LiDAR based method the others are doing.