and the drivers who refuse to strike will reap the large surge price increases due to shortage of drivers.
So Uber and Lyft either achieve self driving capabilities and get rid of the human drivers or go out of business and let the human drivers go. Either way human ride share drivers have no future. If anyone is looking at this occupation as anything other than temp work, they need a reality check.
Why is this inherently true? Taxi services were profitable and Uber/Lyft are better than they ever were. I don't see why Uber/Lyft raising fares a bit would lead to an entire market collapse.
The only issue is that the highest paid blue collar jobs left are in transportation and construction. Those are on the chopping block.
Then what?
What new system will we use to ensure those people have a life they find agreeable.
Modern solutions for modern problems.
After blue collar jobs are eliminated, people will need to skill up in order to create an agreeable life. The best that the state can do is UBI, but that's not an agreeable life - it should be at best, just life.
Starvation, if human history is any guide.
There’s no such thing.
I wonder how long it will be until people realize that “fully autonomous vehicles” in the context of an unmanned taxi service means complete human level brain-replacing AI.
It has literally nothing to do whatsoever with Uber or Lyft’s current business environment.
These aren’t edge cases they happen all the time and they require something pretty similar to full AI.
I’m not saying there won’t be semi-useful niche cases where “autonomous” vehicles are implemented before that, but “fully autonomous” taxis are like eleven steps away and there are no relevant prototypes at all today for that use case.
Waymo is on its way to doing it in phoenix