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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.
Oliver Schick
That will piss off sooo many people. Cabbies as well as uber drivers.
In fact with so many people about to lose work because of this tech, no one will be able to afford to take a trip in these