Driverless cars de-incentivize carpooling and incentivize idling on public roads to avoid storage / parking costs (unless states implement fee structures for oc

Driverless cars de-incentivize carpooling and incentivize idling on public roads to avoid storage / parking costs (unless states implement fee structures for occupying roads). A taxi model means you can compete for market share by being fastest to respond, which means you can fill the roads to the brim with your vehicles to push your competitors out of the market with sheer capital expenditure. You would be further incentivized to do this through economies of scale. You only need to look at how taxi freelancer apps increased the number of vehicle miles on the roads in all major cities and how bike rental apps filled urban areas with bikes annoyingly scattered all over the place. Any car based transport vision of the future means more cars on the road, and consequently more car-focused infrastructure. To really be more efficient you need to focus on passenger miles / unit of energy, which very decidedly means mass transit.