Re: This concept is described as <shudder> "mobility as a service".
>Even if private ownership of an autonomous car will be possible, the rewards for people who pimp out their cars in their downtime
This will be marginal if everyone needs their own car to get to work, as everyone would have a car to pimp out - massive oversupply and little demand. The days of half the population staying at home to keep the household going are over, courtesy of deregulated mortgage markets. I suspect the largest impact would be on public transport, with demand for buses dropping to zilch due to some autonomous car/Uber combination. That's assuming you can easily remove all the soft furnishings and so on to prevent them being sloshed with beer, ripped off or otherwise rendered unpleasant by "the neerdowells who don't have a job."
It would probably kill off the courier market. Amazon's dream come true as you can send your car to the warehouse to pick the dongle up.
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