🔥🚀 Bank of America Sets the Tone: Autonomous Ride-Hailing Could Unlock a $1T+ U.S. Market
Bank of America’s latest view is unambiguous: autonomous ride-hailing has the potential to become a $1 trillion-plus market in the United States.
This isn’t a speculative headline — it’s a structural argument about how Americans actually move.
Today, ride-hailing represents just ~1% of the 3 trillion miles driven annually in the U.S. That low penetration isn’t due to lack of demand, but economics. Traditional ride-hailing is still meaningfully more expensive than owning a car for most use cases.
BofA’s core insight is cost-driven behavior change.
If self-driving vehicles can push per-mile costs closer to the cost of car ownership, adoption doesn’t grow incrementally — it accelerates. Under that scenario, Bank of America estimates autonomous ride-hailing could account for up to 20% of total miles driven over the next 15 years.
That reframes the entire debate. This is not about stealing share from existing transport — it’s about unlocking demand that doesn’t exist today.
A key takeaway from the report is counterintuitive for many investors: the entry of autonomous players does not automatically destroy incumbent platforms. Bank of America argues that Uber can continue to grow, maintain solid margins, and benefit from market expansion even as new entrants emerge.
Why?
Because platforms matter when markets scale. Demand aggregation, routing efficiency, pricing algorithms, and consumer trust don’t disappear when costs fall — they compound.
Where this becomes especially interesting is on the supply side. Companies like $TSLA are not just competing within the ride-hailing market; they’re reshaping the cost curve itself. If autonomous technology materially lowers cost per mile, the entire addressable market expands — for everyone operating on top of it.
In that framework, autonomy is not a zero-sum game.
It’s a market-creation event.
The real shift Bank of America is pointing to isn’t about which company wins first — it’s about how large the market becomes once economics change behavior.
The question investors should be asking now isn’t “who replaces whom,” but:
When cost barriers fall, how many miles that never happened before suddenly become economically viable?
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