1. The global Taxi market is one that does a quarter trillion dollar revenue per year. 2. the biggest cost component is labour. The biggest safety component is

1. The global Taxi market is one that does a quarter trillion dollar revenue per year. 2. the biggest cost component is labour. The biggest safety component is labour. The biggest service component is related to labour. 3. if you cut down cost of labour, make it more safe than before, and provide a quiet and private ride allowing private calls, conversations, music, you can beat other market participants So yes it's commercially interesting and that's all it needs to be. As for efficient and sustainable transport, there are certainly criticisms to be had. But these must be addressed via regulation, in my view. You can't expect taxi companies to disappear. You can add a tax to fuel to encourage a transition to electric. You can put a tax on noisy cars to encourage silent ones. You can put a tax on size, to encourage 1-person taxi pods for 1 person which will be 80% of the self-driving taxi fleet, and encourage 100% utilisation of self-driving busses for a small portion of the fleet. But you can't expect companies to simply not do business in the taxi industry because cars are imperfect from a sustainability/transport point of view. I'm not sure what's disgusting to you.