Self-driving cars 3 - Use cases and their value

Regarding your car you have normally the following situations:

1. It is parked.

2. You are approaching your car because you want to drive.

3. You are driving.

As derived in the post "Self-driving cars 1" the typical German would win around 142 hours per year during driving time (10% of her / his working time) in case the car would drive by itself.  But that's not all. Time can be saved by letting the car find a parking place by itself after the driver has left the car. The car could come and pick you up when it was parked in a remote location. A use case which would make a massive impact on the acceptance of car-sharing. For re-loading energy or maintenance the car could drive by itself to a service station.

Okay - the last points postulate that the technology is highly reliable so that driving without a human being on board is possible. But if this problem is solved other use cases can be thought: Picking-up the weekly grocery online order. Brining the kid to school. You got it ...

Let's assume you would save a bit more than 2 hours per week on top. The total time saved for the average German driver would add up to 250 hours per year. Even without the aspect of car-sharing it is massive when you consider that the labour productivity in Germany is around 50 EUR per hour.