From taxi drivers to truckers, driverless cars are set to disrupt many a business, but we’ve only really scratched the surface of what they could provide.

Once you take away the need to be focusing on the road when you’re driving, the possibilities for what you might do instead are almost endless. And new businesses are certainly going to spring up to take advantage of this few-found time.

Add the fact that we are unlikely to be owning our own driverless cars, and the prospect of rentable driverless experiences tailored to specific needs seems almost too good to miss.

Here we predict some of the driverless car businesses that could crop up once autonomous vehicles hit the road.

Personalised driverless city tours

Tours are a popular option in any tourist destination, but getting wet on open-top buses and traipsing after guides thrusting umbrellas into the air can leave a lot to be desired.

For a more personal yet relatively inexpensive tour of a city, driverless cars are perfect. Hop in and select your interests from a touch-screen interface or companion app, and the car will take you on a journey to see the sights you are interested in, complete with an audio description of the buildings and attractions around you.

Add wide windows with a heads-up display style interface built into them and you could even include augmented reality in the experience, allowing you to see annotated information about your surroundings or touch for more information on specific attractions.

Self-driving cannabis dispensary

In regions where cannabis has been legalised, dispensaries have been cropping up left, right and centre. But what if you could get in a taxi where you could smoke a joint as you travelled?

Laws permitting, we can see the emergence of travel experiences for the stoner. Get into a driverless vehicle equipped with an array of comfy seating, audiovisual entertainment and smoking accessories, and you can select your desired smoke from a vending machine built into the car’s wall.

The well air-conditioned vehicle will either take you to your desired destination, or tour round the region’s ‘woah, dude’ locations, providing an experience evening quite unlike sparking up at home.

Driverless commuter gym

Exercising on your commute has already been suggested as one of the likely appeals of driverless cars, but as the cost of owning a driverless car is likely to be too high for the majority, few of us are going to be lugging an exercise bike into an autonomous Uber.

Instead, we could see one of the driverless car rental companies partnering with a gym chain to provide rentable commuter gyms. These would be one-person driverless vehicles equipped with an exercise bike, treadmill or combination machine to let you get your full workout as you head to work.

Let’s hope they include a cleaning system that activates after each use, though.

Autonomous on-the-go office

For some, driving from place-to-place is a major part of their jobs, but when they’re behind the wheel there’s only so much work they can actually do.

Enter the autonomous office: a driverless car equipped with a complete networked office, enabling them to work and stay in communication as they travel.

These types of vehicles would probably be owned by companies for their own workforce’s use, and could become the staple working environment for location managers, salespeople and regional managers everywhere.

Travelling movie theatre

Moviegoing has seen a relative decline since the advent of high-definition streaming, but we could see the cinema industry using driverless cars to try and counter that.

Available in different sizes for large and small groups, these vehicles would be equipped like a luxury home cinema, showing the latest releases as they took you on your journey.

If this took off, it could even fuel a rise in short films to provide the same experience on shorter journeys, and similar services could be rolled out to support Netflix and Amazon Prime.