Autonomous vehicles are hamstrung by the recharge time. If NTA/Mytaxi/Uber/Merc etc wanted to replace the 7000 taxis in Dublin atm, they`d need at least 14,000 taxis to provide 24/7 service. They`d also need a huge warehouse with hundreds, no thousands of charge bays. If and when lekky can be plucked out of thin air, maybe they will, until then, autonomous vehicles won`t take over.