content: Taxi drivers are just the tip of the iceberg. Parking lot attendants, owners, "parking enforcement" will shift slowly, but also significantly. Think about all of the automotive-based industries and how they'll be changing. Even drive-thru restaurants could see changes from self driving cars (probably just being more of them). Delivery services, probably shipping too eventually will change vastly.  If we move to more of a pool-based structure of cars (fewer people own their own cars, more of them just have a scheduled commuter pick them up from home), we'll see changes from individual-client-based auto services (maintenance centers like oil changes and tire rotation etc), gas stations, car washes moving toward fleet-based auto services.  Regulations will have to change to allow self driving vehicles, and with those automotive regulations we could see changes in regulations to other automation (e.g. automated flying vehicles).  New services will almost surely come up, both to support the self driving cars, and also because of them. I can't imagine what new potential businesses could be enabled from having much simplified transport, but I'm certain there will be many. (Nobody involved in the early stages of the internet likely envisioned it maintaining the massive variety of businesses it enables today).  Then there's the sheer level of self driving car safety. With collision rates being insanely lower than human-based cars, think about the savings both from a financial perspective and from a loss-of-life and medical care perspective. Vehicular insurance could see massive drops in both their costs and their revenues.  The implications of self driving w/o human 'overwatch' cars are huge. The world is changing and I'm excited.