If you listen to speeches by Uber's founder (for example his TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/travis_kalanick_uber_s_plan_to_get_more_people_into_fewer_cars?

If you listen to speeches by Uber's founder (for example his TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/travis_kalanick_uber_s_plan_to_get_more_people_into_fewer_cars?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/travis_kalanick_uber_s_plan_to_get...) you'll hear him say that he thinks self-driving cars are decades off. Uber wants to be the leader in the field because it's a threat to their business model but I don't think your average Uber driver has much to worry about for a long time.