Question: Will a Self-Driving Car be available for ride service by the end of 2018?
This is a sister question to the [other Metaculus Self-Driving Car question], which asked if a commercially available car would be released by 2018. This one will ask if an autonomous vehicle fleet will be in operation for ride sharing, taxi, or shuttling services. 

Self-driving car (SDC) fleets are seen as perfect for rideshare business models like those of Lyft or Uber, who have effort in moving toward autonomous technology. This focus on rideshare became more apparent when [GM invested] $500M in autonomous vehicle fleet for Lyft, and the other dominant figures in autonomous vehicle tech like [Google], [Tesla], and [Ford] are developing fleets of their own with speculated intent for ridesharing. Like the sister question, technological maturity, regulation, cost, public policy, and safety are the primary obstacles in bringing fully autonomous vehicles to market.
Created: 2016-03-15
Resolved: 2019-01-02
Answer: no