YOU MAY REMEMBER Avis and Hertz as places where you arrive in a shuttle bus, waste time in line, then hand someone a few hundred dollars in exchange for a cheap car. You know, exactly the kinds of companies slated for obsolescence in the coming shift to autonomous driving.
Ah, but those old-fashioned companies know a few things about managing and maintaining fleets, skills Silicon Valley upstarts don’t have—and desperately need as they roll out their self-driving cars.