Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

Change happens. I still think this will be for the best.

For as long as humans have been able to fashion tools, the advance of technology has always meant that people have lost jobs through redundancy. As ever, people like yourself are decrying the loss of jobs.

Isn't it time that we do the intelligent thing and learn the lesson that has been taught to us repeatedly for millenia and apply ourselves to how we might reshape the workforce before people lose their jobs? Or are we still too attached to the tired old sackcloth and ashes routine and need to wait for the bad thing to happen first?

I've thought for a while that the reason why Uber evidently received so much venture capital funding was precisely because of this plan to form a corporation that would be able to drastically cut its staff. As Neil says, for the time being there still needs to be someone in the cars, but I expect that the next stage, getting rid of them, will not be too far away. There are likely to always be a few (wo-)manned cars because of the need to assist disabled passengers, for example, but most of them will probably be empty in the not-too-distant future.