History will show that Uber was all about self-driving cars. The human drivers with their own vehicles were used to wrest control of the taxi industry from the traditional legally/politically entrenched local companies. Replacing them with a company with central control.
Replacing the human drivers is merely step 2.
They’ll still keep human drivers, but they’ll be used for trips into city and rural areas where the communication and 3D mapping data is poor. There’ll be more business for human drivers with every fresh snowfall.
