I'm not healthy enough to ride a scooter, but my grandchildren love riding them. It gives them the kind of independence kids used to have in the city.

When I am on a metered scooter, I get nervous about the money I might be losing at every red light. It has none of the security of the Muni.

In the early morning, the bus only comes every hour or so. I have to wake up early to make it, then arrive 30 minutes early to work. With a scooter, there is no waiting.

People ask me ‘how sad that the fun of car ownership is over’. I tell them, ‘os to fun waiting in a snarl of traffic? Is it fun missing your flight at JFK?. If you sleep 8 hours a day, you’ve got 16 hours left. If you are like most people, an hour, two hours of your day are consumed by driving. What does it mean to give people back an hour of leisure or an hour of work?

There will be more formats of vehicles. From our perspective, design and business strategy is not for fantasizing about the future. We are looking for relevance, how industry will look at where ride-share reaches a wider range of use cases.

The car can only be the enemy of the city because it is a tool of dispersion, and cities are all about concentration. Single user AV's can only be bad for cities.

Jannet has three teenage daughters in middle and high school. She lives in a townhouse style apartment but travels to a second homes at a lakeside vacation community most weekends with her husband and children (and often, their friends).

Ryan’s social circle includes his immediate neighbors, work friends of his parents (and their children), and other students at his high school. In the summers and on weekends (and other school breaks), Ryan works at a local hardware store owned by a friend of his fathers. He considers himself typical, watching the same sports and same television as most of the people he knows.

Tonya commutes more than 45 minutes to an office park, where she manages paperwork full time at a medical laboratory. It mostly does blood reports for nearby clinics and hospitals. She passes several towns on her way to work each morning and night, but has rarely had occasion to stop at any.

My children are much more independent than I was because they live in the city. They could travel alone at a much younger age and had more of an ability to form themselves.

Growing up in St. Louis, my parents had to drive me everywhere and sometimes they said no. There were certain people I would have become friends with if it were up to me, and I would have had more diversity in my childhood.

I could not imagine living outside of a city. Getting around takes a lot of time, and it is expensive compared to in India; you have to know how to drive.

Getting around gets harder as you age. I have family outside of the city that could seriously use self driving cars. I think it will be a long time until we can trust them.

I don’t know if self-driving cars will ever be ready. Phones crash every day; we can afford to have cars do that. I wouldn’t want my child to ride one.

I would travel more. It is hard to get out of the city, driving is exhausting. We are a long way away from being ready for self-driving cars.