Originally Posted by
cooker
One of the barriers to LCF or LCL and we hear it here all the time, is that public transit is stigmatized as smelly, dangerous and so on. I think it is possible, that if people start to give up car ownership and rely on first on chauffered Uber and later on hired driverless vehicles, they might also become less hesitant about sharing a ride because they assume the one or two other passengers are their kind of people, and thus shared transit will become less stigmatized.
But if it ends up being someone you don't want to share a ride with, you're stuck in a smaller, more intimate space. I might think people would be more fearful than that.