Regulatory Capture in two steps:
Uber 2009: Government control and restrictions on the taxi business is so 19th-century! Let Uber drivers operate without government oversight!
Uber 2018: Government control and restrictions on future technology is Job One! Let no driver who does not fly the Uber flag live drive without government permission!
Now we know why they seem to be not panicked about short-term cash burn and long-term balance-sheet red ink: the current business is just in place for them to convert to a self-driving fleet that is one of the pampered pets of the NWO.
If this is their position on self-driving cars in cities &c, what about me in my little 2010 rice-burner? Will people watch with laughter and glee the night-vision video from 20,000 feet of me being droned as I approach the toll booth?
Sorry for future generations.
But i hope i do not live long enough to have to be apart of self driving cars.
Wont be surpised if this becomes law in the not so distant future. Despite Trump, this nation is stilk on a fast track to full grown Socialism.
Hey! What a great place for a Rush tune!
Red Barchetta - based on the short story “A Nice Morning Drive”
“The song’s lyrics tell a story set in a future in which many classes of vehicles have been prohibited by “the Motor Law”. The narrator’s uncle has kept one of these now-illegal vehicles (the titular red Barchetta sports car) in pristine condition for some “fifty-odd years” and keeps it hidden at his secret country home (previously a farm before the enactment of the aforementioned Motor Law). Every Sunday, the narrator sneaks out to this location and goes for a drive in the countryside. During one such drive, he encounters a “gleaming alloy air car” that begins to chase him along the roads. A second such vehicle soon joins the pursuit, which continues until the narrator drives across a one-lane bridge that is too narrow for the air cars. The song ends with the narrator returning safely to his uncle’s farm”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjNvjURS-s
Getting their wish, there will be no other type of vehicle on the road - as for you driving: where and who would sell you, and outlaw, fuel? So you do not need to be worried about being the target of a Hellfire missile, just how big your waist will get from sitting on the couch all day.
From the ‘people’s ride’ to ‘Big Brother’s Transport Arm’.
Must be lefties. They want freedom for all until they
get enough power to make freedom their exclusive property.
As to self-driving cars: it will be interesting. If the density of the on-call fleet is such that a car will reliably appear at your door within a couple of minutes, do you really want to undergo the expense of a personal automobile? The self-driving car will still take you anywhere you want to go.
At least a self-driving car won’t over-charge you, and it certainly won’t rape you.
In the urban areas.
I'm in Manhattan on a regular basis as I have an office there. It's pretty much taxis, limos and Uber/Lyft service there already. I know some brave souls do it but it's crazy to take your personal car to Manhattan. Everything about driving in Manhattan is a nightmare from the constant gridlock, avoiding jaywalkers, navigating the various one-way streets, jockeying for position with the trucks and the double-length city buses and of course, the parking, in which you almost always have to hand your keys over to a guy who looks like he just got out of prison and then pay in the neighborhood of $50 to get it back a few hours later.
So I see it happening there first. Private cars banned. Self-driving taxis. You plug your destination into an app on your phone and the next available pulls up to you (flashing your name on top) and you step inside. You are taken to your destination and your credit card is being debited for the trip. No tipping unless you want to give the car a little rub and tap on the way out. For the poorer people, well, you need to rely on the city buses and subways.
It's happening. For better or for worse. Brave new world. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
What destination does the “self driving” car choose:
If you miss a car payment or there’s a mistake in your payment record?
If you want to attend a Tea Party or Trump rally and somebody else doesn’t want you to?
If the police want to talk to you but you don’t want to talk to them at the moment?
Didn’t take long for the companies that ousted the rent seeking taxi monopolies, to want to become rent seeking monopolies themselves!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Another reason I don’t live in libtard urban areas.
regulatory capture is right !
happens in every industry that socialists want to apply Soviet planning methods to.
Haven’t heard anything about motorcycles?
Guess they will be obsolete?
WTF it is with tech companies. First they ask for help from us breaking cab monopolies (or news monopolies in case of facebook) and then they use the money to lobby for their own monopoly.
Here’s all the actual principles without going to the ad infested liberal websites.
It makes sense that Uber and Lyft are looking out for themselves, and the early rollout of self driving cars. They want to make sure that poorly maintained cars don’t hurt the reputation of autonomous vehicles. Most here on FR hate them anyway.
https://www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org/
So the evil plan is revealed. I also am assuming that human driven cars will soon be banned in urban areas, because the only thing the AI can’t cope with is human randomness. Better get the red barchetta tucked away in the barn now.