The term “ride sharing” feels like an Orwellian anachronism as applied to current Uber/Lyft. Matching people who had to go from approximately the same place to

The term “ride sharing” feels like an Orwellian anachronism as applied to current Uber/Lyft. Matching people who had to go from approximately the same place to approximately the same place had a lot of promise both to expand mobility, but also to address some “bowling alone” problems. Still, the fact that most cars sit idle IIRC > 95% of the time seems like there should be some genuine opportunity frontier. I think the dream was always to get to a point where autonomous driving and somewhat centralized route optimization could generate real efficiencies. But the Uber/Lyft needed to get people out of their own cars en masse for that to work. Autonomous driving didn’t appear at the right time for everything to work out, I think.