I think you are setting the bar in the wrong place. For self driving cars to succeed, there just has to be a few good use cases where people prefer them to nor

I think you are setting the bar in the wrong place. For self driving cars to succeed, there just has to be a few good use cases where people prefer them to normal cars, and there's sufficient economic value to run a business. They do not have to murder the existing car industry in order to 'succeed'. Look at electric vehicles - they've been around for more than a decade now. Many ppl have one and it adds value to their life. Still you can't do _everything_ a gas car can do like drive 1000 miles in a single day. But that's not important because there are places they do shine. And even though there's still way more ICE cars than EVs on the road, you probably wouldn't argue that EVs "aren't a thing". Also, you're assuming that the world/environment around the innovation is static, when in most cases the world adapts around the innovation. For EVs, we now see charging stations at grocery stores and office buildings to assist people which the battery capacity problem