It's my belief that everyone except the incredibly naive know that the "rideshare economy" by these companies in the u.s. are just an excuse to buying themselve

It's my belief that everyone except the incredibly naive know that the "rideshare economy" by these companies in the u.s. are just an excuse to buying themselves time until they can smooth out fully autonomous l4-5 driving. Cars are incredibly cheap compared to human labor and the investors subsidizing each of our rides know fully well that if they don't do so at the moment, people will complain enough and through mutual shared pain figure out effective ways of transportation which will make the costs of developing fully autonomous solutions way higher and increase the risk of people not adopting it when its actually available. Because inertia and human conditioning. This does not solve the core issue of inefficient implementation of public transportation, poor planning and bad road design. As a developed nation, the u.s. has absolutely terrible infrastructure seconded only by its terrible healthcare situation. However, my thoughts are that when I no longer have to drive myself through bumper to bumper traffic, caused by a few frustrated and short sighted drivers zig zagging during rush hour slowing everyone else down, an hour each way to work, I probably won't mind the effects of poor infrastructure, and neither would others. It would probably be the same as riding in a train to us. That way I'm not losing hours of time a day doing something I absolutely dislike and abhor instead choosing to use that time productively for myself. (I don't want to comment on whether remote working will alleviate this for this particular article.) This is probably what Uber, Lyft, Google and their investors are betting on?