Maybe in the short term, but riders may be losers in the long term too. At the moment the future of "ridesharing" with autonomous cars seems to be becoming a

Maybe in the short term, but riders may be losers in the long term too. At the moment the future of "ridesharing" with autonomous cars seems to be becoming a distraction from actually expanding public rapid transit infrastructure that everyone would benefit from. You now have people and city councillors questioning "well why do we need to spend all this money on this light rail line when autonomous car sharing is going to make this all irrelevant in a few years anyway?" Of course it remains to be seen whether autonomous cars are going to even exist in a few years let alone what positive or negative impacts they'll have on the transportation system.