> It didn't take great vision or foresight to see the uber app back in the early 2010's and see how things will play out vis-a-vis getting rid of the driver

It's not clear to me. The Uber we have today seems to be paying the third party drivers around cost price per kilometer, and doesn't have to allocate capital for purchasing vehicles, nor for cleaning or maintaining those vehicles. An Uber that had to buy a bunch of self-driving vehicles that they would also then have to maintain, clean, and service, seems like a worse, more risky, business than what they are running today.