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Self-Driving Ride Sharing May Halve Car Ownership
- Detroit Bureau, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:52 AM
The growing levels of comfort of driverless cars and the rise of ride-sharing programs could combine to cut private car ownership nearly in half, according to a recent study from the University of Michigan. If Google’s fleet of self-driving vehicles became part of a growing number of Uber and Lyft drivers, or even supplanted them, the need for a second car is blunted, the researchers said, especially if a “return-to- home” mode is involved.
