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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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[–] 3 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

Tesla is far from the only player - they're just the loudest, and sadly the most embarrassing. Waymo and Zoox, for example, are demonstrating its real feasibility and desirability.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    To be fair, I've never stepped into a Waymo, but from what I've heard they're sent on pre-determined paths around a delimited area. These only seem to be feasible you can either strictly control your environment or adjust for a finite number of cases, such as a delimited area, and even that isn't working too hot for other road users.

    I still don't see the advantage versus a taxi bus.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    The "delimited area" comprises entire cities, and they are not following predetermined paths, except in the sense that they only follow mapped roads. And the entire point is to share the road with human drivers.

    Taxi buses do not operate on-demand.

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