Right now, I need to manually find someone who is carpooling. If there happens to be someone on my street that I know and is going to roughly the same place, that&#x27;s fine. However, there are many trips which have overlapping segments that I&#x27;d never be able to find without an automated system.<p>For carpooling with my own car, that&#x27;s really too much work to try and hunt down someone, figure out how cost sharing is going to work, ensure that our schedules are in sync often enough for it to work out, and so on.<p>With an automated system, it can just adapt to changing demands. Maybe some days schedules are too far out of sync, so it just sends dedicated cars. Maybe some days there&#x27;s someone better to pool with.<p>You can already do this with systems like UberPool, but with self driving cars, you don&#x27;t have to pay a dedicated driver, so it becomes even cheaper and more convenient.