Waymo Autonomous tech represents existential threat to Uber

We are rapidly heading towards a future where the concept of having a family car parked out in the garage will become about as common as owning a horse and cart. Private vehicle ownership will shrink dramatically over the next couple of decades, replaced for the most part by Autonomous ride-sharing services like Waymo, where you simply push a button on your phone, and within minutes a Driverless Taxi arrives to pick you up and take you to your destination. Yeap it does, but the technology is already well and truly here, with Waymo the self-driving car division of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc having been busy at work perfecting the art of Autonomous driving since 2009. The Waymo fleet has already accumulated 8 million miles of travel on real world roads without a human behind the wheel, and the company is aiming to launch a paid Driverless ride-sharing service in Arizona before the end of this year. The Waymo ride-sharing service will for the most part be just like Uber, where you hail a ride on your phone, and a car magically appears at your location.