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After Uber Destroyed Taxi Cabs, Drivers Now Face the Existential Threat of Self-Driving Cars: "It feels like every time I adjust to a new reality, another tech comes along & threatens my livelihood." (futurism.com)
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[–] [S] 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Uber spent a decade telling cities that protecting taxi drivers was anti innovation. Now that robotaxis threaten its own business, suddenly limits on new competitors sound reasonable. Amazing how quickly »disruption« becomes »regulation« when the disruption reaches the boardroom.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Uber spent a decade telling cities that protecting taxi drivers was anti innovation. Now that robotaxis threaten its own business, suddenly limits on new competitors sound reasonable.

    Uber has also been working on and I'm pretty sure has been operating robotaxis.

    My impression is that human drivers were probably going to be a temporary situation for them as they built out their system, which would provide a strategically-advantageous position relative to competing robotaxi operators for them to do the transition to robotaxis.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber

    The company has launched or is in the process of launching robotaxi services in several cities worldwide in partnership with operators, software designers, and car manufacturers including Lucid Motors, Nuro, Baidu, Pony.ai, Avride, Nissan, Rivian, Zoox, Stellantis, Wayve, and Nvidia (to use the Nvidia Drive software).[3][4][5][6]

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