A year after the tech is available, I'd expect a thicket of regulations and permits to emerge that make it economically unviable for anyone but a large company

A year after the tech is available, I'd expect a thicket of regulations and permits to emerge that make it economically unviable for anyone but a large company fielding thousands of cars to profit. Sort of like how you couldn't open your own payment processor for the few hundred people in your neighborhood today.