A few years ago, I drove for Uber and Lyft in the Phoenix metro. People at the airport parking lots and Uber driver Facebook groups kept saying that robotaxis weren’t coming for our jobs, but I figured differently. We were already sharing the road with test vehicles not only from Waymo, but also Uber’s modified Volvos. As we all know, time is money, and I figured we didn’t have much time before those Volvos took our jobs, assuming Tesla didn’t take everyone’s jobs faster.
“Maybe five years, max,” I’d say (in 2018).
Here we are five years later, and things haven’t gone quite as expected. Despite all the hype, Tesla’s efforts haven’t reached the point where Tesla is comfortable taking on all that liability and sending them out without human supervision. Uber didn’t last…
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