> outside small well-mapped neighborhoods will not be ... economically viable. Hmm... but aren't the small well-mapped (and high-density) neighborhoods where a

> outside small well-mapped neighborhoods will not be ... economically viable. Hmm... but aren't the small well-mapped (and high-density) neighborhoods where almost all the money is? You see way more conventional cabs roaming Manhattan and the Chicago Loop than you do on a county road outside Minot, North Dakota. Also, there's no reason they couldn't keep some human drivers for trips outside the dense core regions. The apps know where you're going before the car is even dispatched, after all. "This guy is going from the Art Institute to the Field Museum... send him a robocar." "This guy is going from O'Hare to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Kankakee... send him a human driver."