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Suzanne Santo · 35w
You are missing the point completely.. I’m saying there is great danger from foreign drivers who don’t speak English and don’t know the rules of the road, working in America, driving people arou...
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nostrich
I beg to differ that driving isn”t a mundane job. I find no joy in driving short or long distances and welcomed the convenience of car driving services like Uber that democratized the taxi services, introduced competition, and lowered the cost of on demand car services. Now that companies like Uber and Lyft have a near monopoly, it’s only natural that they be disrupted by cheaper autonomous services. Disrupting this continued innovation would stagnate the American economy. Let capitalist place their bets and enjoy the gains and the public enjoy the spoils of their bets. If there is no demand for these services then the capital will be deployed elsewhere.
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Suzanne Santo · 35w
Again, my question is, how can these services have safer practices and more efficient screening for their drivers? That was my point the whole time. I spent 20 years of my life on the road and loved it. To each their own.
Suzanne Santo · 35w
1. They’re incredibly unsafe. We have them all over Austin and they don’t know how to turn properly and are always in the way. 2. Driverless cars are another “vehicle” for lack of a better w...
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Yes. The infancy of innovations are often rudimentary, works in progress and do displace people from mundane jobs and often frees up that labor to fill other roles in the economy. I”m sure you wouldn’t want women manually routing your phone calls on switchboards today. ( and with respect to English speaking - what does that have to do with getting from Point A to Point B using GPS coordinates? The language barrier isn’t an issue in the USA or traveling around the world now - your pain point here seems to indicate a robotaxi service that literally knows all the rules of the road, is more attentive than a human driver, and can communicate in whatever language the rider prefers would more than meet your needs. )
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Suzanne Santo · 35w
You are missing the point completely.. I’m saying there is great danger from foreign drivers who don’t speak English and don’t know the rules of the road, working in America, driving people around… moron. Driving people around isn’t necessarily a mundane job, as you say.. much like social...