Think of your last experience with a rental car company: Hauling luggage onto a shuttle bus, waiting in line, paying a hundred dollars for a few days in a Corolla (no offense to Corolla owners, of course).
While it may seem that autonomous ride-sharing services will eventually relegate such experiences to the same fate as Kodak film, portable CD players, and sport jackets with the sleeves rolled up (as in, not around anymore), recent tales of car rental companies’ demise appear to be greatly exaggerated.