yes, the unemployment thing is already happening with technology, and if anyone knows the taxi sexual assault figures in london last year, its 148 minicab sexual assault/rapes, over half of them by uber drivers, and uber covered these facts up, a freedom request finally got tfl to publish figures, and uber want driverless taxis! whats to stop a company who doesnt want to release rape figures by there drivers, let the driverless taxi in 2021 pick up a package, put in by a terrorist, and deliver it to anywhere he pays for, then said package goes up with a massive bang, customer who paid for the driverless taxi nowhere near, but lots of innocent people victims of the driverless taxi bomb!

Won't be the same though, that 'Fake Taxi' franchise, once its driverless. Better acted, maybe.

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Nothing to do with him being a complete luddite and the fact that driverless cars will take away his perceived 'living'...nah thought not

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Uber is desperate. Its business model may not allow it to ever make money as long as it has to pay human drivers, spend massive resources to recruit them, and deal with the fallout when they cause problems. So it has been furiously working on self-driving technologies. And now it’s taking a small-scale experimental program to the big league – starting in 2019.
Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., announced today that it has signed a “framework agreement” to sell Uber “tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021.”

I'll still happily pay more and get a black cab.

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Perhaps more notably, Tesla just unveiled a self-driving, electric tractor unit for hauling 18-wheelers. That will be taken up way before passenger vehicles get going, because the driving performance has the promise to exemplary, will never degrade due to tiredness, illness or distraction, and doesn't need mandatory rest periods. It will just hop from charging station to charging station until it reaches its destination.

Edited by Ray in Houston (20 Nov 2017 8.24pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Two examples: a driver for one of my clients was on his way to church (in his company pick-up) and wanted to put on a CD of church music (it was in Oklahoma). He dropped the CD, bent down to pick it up and, in that moment, crossed the center line and had a head-on collision with a car coming the other way. Everyone in the pick-up was ok, the other car was a mother and her two kids. The mother was pregnant with her third child. One kid survived but is very badly permanently crippled; everyone else died.

Same company, different day. An employee in his company pick-up is driving to town with his girlfriend and her child. He rounded a blind corner too fast and ran straight into the back of a tractor-trailer unit that was stopped because of a parade in town. The driver received cuts and bruises; everyone else in the pick-up died.

Driverless cars will not commit such errors. The Tesla fatality was a wake-up call for the company - that its software was not up to snuff (they claim now to have fixed the parameters that made it not see the crossing vehicle). However, that crossing vehicle was making a very poorly conceived effort to cross a fast, busy road while towing a trailer (which is what the Tesla didn't see and so hit). Had the crossing vehicle been driverless, it would not have been stranded across the street at that moment.

Taking the human error out of driving is going to save millions of lives. The more self-driving is replaced by autonomous vehicles, the safer it will get.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.