> > If this self driving future is better, people will be driving more, not less

> People won't be driving at all.

Poor choice of words. There will be more cars on the roads, not fewer. Somebody will have to build those cars.

> Obviously, cars will still be made, but not consumer cars. The consumer car market is dead.

But the car market is larger, not smaller, and that's what matters. Fleet vehicles are generall not cheaper than consumer vehicles; a new city bus is now $1M and not because city transport authorities are swimming in cash.

> Tesla shifted focus into the Cybercab & Cybervan, both self-driving only vehicles, which don't have steering wheels.

Which is only one portion of the picture. Have they spent any effort on million mile batteries? Have they spent any effort on million mile suspensions? Have they spent any effort on million mile interiors -- nobody wants to get into a taxi with > 200 000 miles on the odo, but million mile trains and buses are fine because they're made of hard wearing material that is easy to deep clean.

Taxi drivers generally run Toyota's and Mercedes' for a reason.