Self-driving cars have a very subtle advantage: private space.
In big cities, private space is not easy to obtain and the price is very high: hourly rooms are generally 80-120 yuan for three hours; renting a room is 1.5-2 times the price of renting a room together. This is the market-based pricing of private space, which is like a luxury for many people.

Even when the technology is further upgraded and the ride experience of driverless cars is more stable and quiet, it is also necessary to transform the interior of the car into an office scene. Driverless cars save the empty front driver seat, and there is more space for subsequent passengers, where you can put a table and a computer for work, or directly hold a video conference. This kind of additional office value is also completely unavailable in the past manned cars.

Furthermore, a large part of the cost of online ride-hailing and taxis is the labor cost of drivers, which exceeds the sum of fuel, electricity, depreciation and insurance costs, which means that the actual cost of driverless cars has room to drop by at least 50%, or even more. In addition to carpooling and other forms, it is conceivable that the price will be as low as public transportation in the future, and it will also absorb low-income groups, the elderly, the disabled, etc. who usually do not take taxis.

As for some friends questioning the cameras in driverless cars? Come on, there are cameras in movie theaters, even in some hotels, and in regular online ride-hailing cars. In the future, AI technology for changing heads and faces will be popular. If you are photographed, just don't admit it. There is nothing to be afraid of.

Compared with online ride-hailing cars, in addition to completing the "transportation" function, driverless cars also provide a few minutes to dozens of minutes of "private time and space" during driving, and the cost is extremely low.

This space, not to mention replacing hourly rooms, is as simple, crude and ambiguous as it is, but at least it can replace the private atmosphere of young couples in a movie, similar to a private cinema.