> Your cleaning staff can't be waiting around all day doing nothing, they need things to do.

The service staff may have more to do then cleaning, and even without major events like "someone puked in the back", a large fleet is going to have a continuous, ongoing level of cleaning and care needs (much of which, while needed on an ongoing basis, can easily be deferred when a puking, etc., incident occurs to focus on that.)

So its quite likely that there will, at least in major markets, be work for a 24/7 service staff that also handles puke-like incidents.

Or, I could just drive the cleaning person to the vehicle in question. I'd still have those 30 minutes of downtime + cleaning time, but no time returning the car to action. So maybe I lose an hour a day per cleaning (and maybe the car should be cleaned once a day regardless, nice way to keep the cleaning team engaged) BUT a self-driving car isn't a person. It can work 24 hours a day, so I'd still get 23 hours out of it.

>>Your cleaning staff can't be waiting around all day doing nothing, they need things to do.

By the time full scale driving AI arrives. I'm sure we will have decently capable robots who can clean this kind of thing.