Posted on 12/05/2018 9:39:12 AM PST by lowbridge
I think you should ping everybody you know with that information.
I’m serious.
Those numbers are frightening.
Look on the bright side. They do not have to have a license nor speak english.
LOL...THAT’s the bright side.
Yikes.
Eventually autonomous vehicles will exist, but the fact the industry is trying to sell and push this tech, in the state it is today is downright CRIMINAL.
There aren’t even semi-automous trucks licensed to drive on our Interstates, which is a FAR simply problem... all traffic travels in the same direction, no cross traffic, signals, etc.... Yet they are trying to sell fully autonomous vehicles for CITY driving is downright INSANE.
There are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of known cases they have NO IDEA how to solve yet with autonomous vehicles. These vehicles have NO business on public streets...
Uber will be BK long before autonomous vehicles are certified en masse... and if they are certified en masse before then it will be because someone spend a fortune buying votes...
Not only is UBER not likely to survive until autonomous vehicles, but cities are going to start making them live more and more within the frameworks that exist for other public transportation services, which means their expenses will keep going up, AND most folks are figuring out that driving for UBER doesn’t pay enough to be worth the hassle. So attracting and retaining drivers will continue to cost more and more.
Still not a fan of the Gov telling private businesses how much they can pay their employees.
Its public information, in terms of their revenues.
And more than a few researchers and engineers have publicly admitted they are nowhere near solving the autonomous driving problem..
But enthusiasm is greater than fear.. because when it is finally here it will be a game changer... but its NOWHERE near the ability to be on city streets.
I assume this will lead to less Uber/Lyft vehicles in NYC which will lead to increased wait times, increased fares, and therefor decrease in use and further decrease in drivers.
I wonder if it’s constitutional.
For me, it’s all about avoiding the city. I know not everyone can do that, but still...
The reality is autonomous driving is an 80-10 or 90-10 problem....
80-90% of the effort to solve it, will be in the last 10-20%....
Autonomous driving has been in the works in research for at least 2-3 decades now... and its gotten to the 80th percentile mark in terms of being solved....
The problem, as I stated above is that 80-90% of the actual work to fully solve the problem will be in that final 10-20%.... We are DECADES away from solving it.... and those selling it as a ready for prime time are LYING... flat out LYING to the investors, the public and government officials..
I wonder if this will boost the prices of taxi medallions.
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Ask Michael Cohen. He’s got some he might sell you ;)
The government does not have the right to force anyone to pay a certain amount, or a minimum, or a maximum in a transaction. It has usurped that power, to which it has no right.
NYC
Making Uber pay minimum wage, making Uber pay expenses is good. The alternative is letting them ethically abuse potentially desperate workers (because they can). I'm definitely not big on regulation but I think this is an area that government can make sure the playing field is fair.
Plus expenses.
exactly my thought. TLC is always backing taxi owners who pay $$$$ for medallions. don’t use wages to address traffic issues.
Rockford had some biggies.
That's been the business plan all along. The stated goal by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has been to "get the driver out of the car" which is why Uber is so aggressively pursuing self-driving cars. They are hoping to survive losses in the meantime while they get their business to scale (which was Amazon's early strategy).
For the first 15 years of Amazon's existence, we all predicted their downfall but it never happened. Their revenues continued to fund growth and it was only much later they had the scale and efficiency to get to a profit (with a major assist from their cloud business).
The Uber/Lyft business model only makes sense when the driver is out of the car.
They’re not employed, they’re contractors.
Laws like this will assure New York is gets the earliest possible deployment of driverless cars.
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