I would never travel in a driverless car.....could get hacked....you could end up somewhere not of your own choosing.
I think being the go to for summoning a robot car was their intention all along, human drivers were just a stop gap.
Like Netflix mailing DVD’s while waiting for streaming to really catch on.
I think it sounds like a job killer, or a trend which leads to attrition and erosion of their driver base.
I hear radio commercials a lot for Uber. They stress how you can work your own schedule, be your own boss, etc., if you are an Uber driver.
If Uber doesn’t need human drivers, then Uber would not be creating these driver jobs for which they are advertising.
I do not believe that autonomous vehicles work very well on roads that don’t have good paint-stripes delimiting the lanes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-autonomous-infrastructure-insig-idUSKCN0WX131
That would tend to narrow down the areas where they can be used.
Doesn’t it still require an operator?
Who should be sued from the first death via a driver less car?
Can someone explain to me, as if I’m six years old, how a driverless car works? Does it get a signal from a satellite? Does it get a signal from a cellular phone tower? How does it know where it is and where it’s going? How does it avoid road hazards? How does it drive on a snowy road in the winter?
sorry for juvenile questions, but I’m unclear what technology guides a driverless vehicle.
Maybe, but Uber won’t have to worry about passengers being assaulted by their drivers. (And vice-versa)
No but it will be a pedestrian killer just wait
Uber seems to have disregarded what made it successful in the first place.
They created a platform for the individual’s economic freedom - for the driver to work on his own schedule and terms, with zero opportunity cost and zero capital (assuming he already owns a car). And for the consumer as well - maximum choice, maximum flexibility, lower cost with zero investment. The two sides come together and make deals for mutual benefit - the ultimate free-market triumph.
Now Uber is replacing the supplier with a massively huge, fixed capital investment, and meanwhile, will present consumer and unfamiliar choice - although presumably still lower cost, and choice
Seems to be a big deviation from the strategy that made them rich. It worked for Amazon, but will it work for Uber?
current laws require a licensed human driver IN the car.
How soon before UBER pays off the politicians to make driverless mandatory?
(I don't think much of driverless cars today, but if it can be made to happen, no one should stand in the way.)
ML/NJ
It is funny to see the knee-jerk reaction some have to the concept of self-driving cars.
It is like people saying they would never get on a flying contraption made of metal.
The reality is that not only will self-driving cars happen, eventually human drivers will be considered to be too unsafe to be legal.
Once self-driving cars become common and safe, it will also become cheaper to use services like Uber to completely replace owning cars.
If you owned a company and there was a way to reduce the payroll to just one person (yourself), would you do it? In Capitalism, expenses are a necessary evil. And the cost of employees is an expense. So I would say yes, driver-less cars and trucks will put a lot of people out of work.
I keep picturing that cat on the round vacuum for self-driving
They are just thinking one step ahead in case uber drivers unionize.
Would you let a self driving car take you for a ride?