A big part of the actual value of "driverless" to :porky-happy: is using it as an extension of the privatized surveillance state. I've even had bazingas tell me directly that they want their future magic car to be "rented out" when they aren't using it so it's constantly making revenue for them as some wasteful version of mass transit with extra steps. They seem to want centralization through corporations and seem to want to be monitored and directed through the same but want that "freedom" illusion all the while because mass transit that does better for cheaper with a lot less waste involves being around the poors, and they can't have that.
Is that really all it is? Some techbro hangup about seeing poor people?
They're literally making the assumption that many people are duped by under capitalism - that they are actual parties to the wealth and prosperity generated by it, while they are in fact the ones who get the wealth extracted out of them - in that sense the 'buy a Tesla and rent it out' people are essentially the distribution points for Tesla cars and not really their "owners" in the sense that the majority of profits paid from such a service will go to the car manufacturer/system maintainers. They simply possess the resource and rent it out (and will always be X number of rides away from defaulting on their payments).
Also the people who are renting out their autonomous vehicles will be on the hook for liability 100% of the time.