Anakin: Self-driving cars will orbit the street’s so there will always be one nearby if someone requests a ride.

Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?

Anakin:

Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?!

One other thought is to use Google Voice.

At least in that case, everything runs through a Google server, rather than through some possibly janky connection between your desktop and phone.

The drawback is that, if you have an existing phone number, you’d have to port it over to Google Voice (or maybe Google Fi can port that number to an actual cell phone; not sure if it can).