content: What do you mean exactly? In the longrun it quite obviously would be. An uber driver has to charge an amount such that he covers his baseline fees - the cost of his vehicle and maintenance on itthe cost of his vehicle, but then also enough to make a living on top of that. As the owner your cost would only be the baseline. What will be interesting is to see how close to that baseline the self driving taxi companies will go. There's going to be vicious competition there since it's an industry that's going to end up monopolized due to the fact that will rely on critical mass for growth. When people want taxis they want them fast. That means the biggest self driving taxi company, which has the most vehicles, will stand to get even bigger as more people come to use them over smaller competitors who are unable to match the speed of service. Due to the minimal labor requirements this final self driving taxi empire could end up being one of the most individually enriching companies there has ever been.