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AIBU to think we don’t want driverless taxis?

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Burnedbyquestions · Yesterday 07:41

Driverless Ubers now bookable in London - as a pedestrian I would not feel safer knowing cars are driverless and as a taxi passenger I want to support humans to have a livelihood, not increase numbers on benefits and give Uber more profits. Surely most people agree? Appreciate taxi drivers need tighter controls after all the sex attack and intimidation problems but I don’t think driverless anything is the solution.
If taxis were that cheap what would happen to buses/trains? The roads would be clogged up with individual passengers in cars instead - I can’t see the point of them.

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RancidRuby · Today 18:05

KnickerlessParsons · Today 14:51

My biggest concern would be whether the driverless taxi knows someone has thrown up in it, and then can it clean itself, or does it know it needs to take itself off to the nearest cleaning station? I imaging they must all belong to someone (Uber?), and that there is a garage or somewhere where they all go to refil/recharge/get cleaned/get serviced at least once a day.

There are cameras in them so I assume something like that would get flagged.

SerendipityJane · Today 18:08

We were in LA over the summer holidays and used them a lot. They felt very safe and we didn’t have a single issue, if anything it felt like they were being very cautious

Or they simply followed the rules of the road ? Suggesting that what you feel is normal is just recklessness that has been accepted as the standard ?

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