I'm under the assumption that self driving will pop up first in large scale commercial applications before usage by individuals. Something akin to a bus route and a train line sort of thing. You could have autonomous vehicles go back and forth between a warehouse and a retail location for instance (ie: Big Box retail), semis or a bus route/tram. What's also interesting is that with the way that autonomous vehicles can be programmed to behave, you could have them connect to one another and move in tandem like extra cars on a train. Semi's could be kinda replaced or enhanced in this manner as well. For instance, self driving to a certain extent with a human operator dealing with the more delicate stretches of the driving and/or autonomous trailers that could connect or lengthen or shorten for certain jobs. The self driving of the trailers would mainly be be maneuvering for connection and re-connection purposes, not truly drive around on its own. This same set up would allow an extension to be added to a bus intermittently for something like rush hour, while also allowing the bus to shorten during non-peak times (ie: Short bus).
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