content: bus  A fleet of privately maintained self-driving cars-for-hire would be capable of responding to decentralized demands for transportation in ways that current public transit cannot, though. I would be perfectly fine with taking a bus to and from work, but I don't live in a city-- thus there aren't any bus routes nearby, and there isn't a bus stop anywhere near where I work. I pay north of $400 a month for transportation to and from work, when you consider my car loan as well as gas. Most of that is the loan, admittedly, but I doubt there will be much equity in the asset after the loan term is up (I will probably drive the car until it's more or less dead). Point being, a company that pays to do nothing but operate a pay-per-ride fleet can do it a lot better than I do on my own. I can certainly see there being a good business case for such a thing to exist, and if the value were there, I would probably use it myself.