Good point. Time will tell I guess. Since you've pointed out that there are a lot of actual manufacturers working on self driving cars, for any second place p

Good point. Time will tell I guess. Since you've pointed out that there are a lot of actual manufacturers working on self driving cars, for any second place players who don't enter the B2C taxi service market, the next obvious step is to licence the technology to someone like Uber. Then they can compete on supply and price. The question is whether it's better for a manufacturer to enter the taxi service industry, or licence their technology and focus on direct consumer sales of the vehicles.