Did Uber figure out that if anyone can buy self-driving cars that their golden utopia vision of booting all drivers and simply maintaining a fleet of self-drivi

Did Uber figure out that if anyone can buy self-driving cars that their golden utopia vision of booting all drivers and simply maintaining a fleet of self-driving roving vehicles doesn't make sense? Did they figure out that someone else can run servers just as well as Uber and offer people the opportunity to lease out their self-driving cars, utterly destroying Ubers market (they would have to charge far more to maintain the whole lifespan of the self-driving car where someone only renting theirs out for a few hours a week would happily take far less)? Or have they just generally realized self-driving cars will never work because no company in the software space is capable of dedicating the years of testing necessary to make a truly reliable product, while those willing to cut every corner will be first to market.... and will proceed to destroy the market by turning society against them after some of their poorly-designed vehicles smear a few toddlers across the sidewalk.