Some Say Self-Driving Robotaxi Isn't A Business; Billions Are Being Bet That It Is

Waymo is now operating a robotaxi pilot in non-downtown San Francisco using Jaguar electric ... [ ] vehicles. This is territory where a real robotaxi make sense. Most of the biggest names in self-driving cars are aiming to make money selling Robotaxi service -- most quickly described as a self-driving Uber UBER -style service where you can summon a car with an app on your phone and ride elsewhere for a reasonable fee, possibly combined with "sharing" in some form, such as the style of UberPool or forms of on-demand transit. This is the plan of Waymo, Cruise, Amazon AMZN /Zoox, Argo AI and many others. It was obviously the plan of Uber ATG before it sold to Aurora, and Lyft LYFT L5 before it sold to Toyota.