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OK, so now you've laid out what happens if everything goes perfectly. Now list what could go wrong and your best estimates of their likelihood, and tell us what a mixed success would look like.
The worst thing that can happen? Status quo.

Mixed success: cheaper trucking, cheaper taxis, and nothing else changes.

One important implication is more consume. If people get from A to B per car without paying attention on the road, they can consume more entertainment, do more google searches, spend more time on the web.

Capacity utilization and efficiency is just a fall-out. We already sleep way too much, you cannot do anything about that, but the 'Googles' cannot tolerate users (customers) driving around 1-2 hours a day doing nothing but starring on the street.