A company is already working on car pooling to replace taxis in New York City. The models claim that 13,000 taxis can be replaced by 3,000-4,000 self-driving cars. Since taxi medallions in New York City went for $1,050,000 in 2013, but currently go for $425,000 to $649,000 http://nycitycab.com/Business/TaxiMedallionList.aspx it looks as though self-driving cars of the future may already be affecting taxi medallion prices.
THAT LOW!!!!
They can keep em. Now they’re worth, with this news, 3 or 4 hundred thousand.
There are 50k taxis i think but half a million is a lot to make up if youre racing against the clock.
The number of people needed to maintain these things, unlike computers, will be a much lesser number than the people it replaces