Perhaps, if you let your personal vehicle join the taxi fleet.
But I suspect (dedicated) self-driving taxis will become the most intimately surveilled space on earth, and anyone littering etc will be fined for it, certainly to the point of covering cleaning costs, and most likely as an additional revenue stream.
Additonally I suspect, far from ushering in an era of care-free, and almost cost-free travel, the self-driving fleet will be metered like cell-phones (ridiculously complex price plans), and part of the 'price' will be that your travel data is sold on.
True freedom will be a bicycle - assuming viable routes between "bicycle friendly areas" remain open - a danger is that inter-city/town/village roads become robot-only, and you can only actually travel 'manually' within bounded living areas, eg a city precinct, village, etc.
I expect cities full of robotic cars to be great bike cities. The reason why I don't bike every day is because with human drivers, I have to fear for my life. A robotic car, however, will not turn into me, will not speed, will not run the red light.
That's the hope, yes.
It depends if robot cars can deal well with cyclists or not. If not, the two may not be allowed to mix, and guess which will get priority.
But I suspect (dedicated) self-driving taxis will become the most intimately surveilled space on earth, and anyone littering etc will be fined for it, certainly to the point of covering cleaning costs, and most likely as an additional revenue stream.
Additonally I suspect, far from ushering in an era of care-free, and almost cost-free travel, the self-driving fleet will be metered like cell-phones (ridiculously complex price plans), and part of the 'price' will be that your travel data is sold on.
True freedom will be a bicycle - assuming viable routes between "bicycle friendly areas" remain open - a danger is that inter-city/town/village roads become robot-only, and you can only actually travel 'manually' within bounded living areas, eg a city precinct, village, etc.