how about when you see everyone else is enjoying a beer while driving, or in more advanced versions don't even have driving seat.. ? its starting a trend and the price that Tesla and VW put will become the base pricing
TBH it is hard to believe that it is required to have 8 $/h to have autonomous vehicle. Once we have the technology Google will build efficient data center with custom chips and the price will go down to X $/month. On top of it - I think the model will have to run locally, so it would make sense to pay upfront for extra hardware they put in your car and not that much for maintenance.
We are just not there yet, we don't have autonomous driving - we have better driver assistants.
I'm not such an alcoholic that I would pay $8.50/hr to drink beer on my way to work. And, realistically, we're decades away from being able to drink while AI drives.