Scam or not, I've said this before and I'll say it again: self driving is a side show.

Electrification? Yes, important. Getting fewer people to own and use cars altogether? Totally. But is self driving going to get us there? Think about it, all the reasons that people cite for wanting to own a car today will still be there. I don't see many people going "well now that it drives itself I won't need it in my driveway."

Especially because for some fucked-up reason, the connection to "my car" is much more emotional than it should be. I'm from Germany and the attachment people have to these things is insane. There's actually some interesting psychoanalytical work about this.