 Topic: Robocars
Even bicycles can suffer a shutdown
The goal of a successful robotaxi fleet is to offer a service that works as a "car replacement." You need to get people to give up car ownership to attain the brass ring. If they still own a car, they are motivated to use the expensive vehicle they already paid for rather than use your service. Most commonly in the early years, this will mean convincing people to switch from 2 cars in a family to 1, and use the service for all times 2 or more people need to travel.
If you have a great robotaxi service, with low costs, short wait times, and a wide service area, it should be easy to win such customers. You may even win them with special subscription plans which mirror the cost patterns of car ownership, but at a lower cost and the pleasure of not having to drive.
One thing that might scare them away would be the service becoming unavailable. Once people decide to depend on a service to commute or do other vital trips, they won't tolerate it being down with any frequency.
In particular, I want to consider these problem areas:
The vehicles are not rated for certain weather conditions, like a certain amount of snow, and they all stop service when this happens
Some major fault in the fleet management system makes it impossible to summon cars. (Airlines have shut down fairly often due to this.)
A safety pro
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