Driverless Taxis

[Moorea7]

Just watched a clip on TV. Wouldn't fancy getting into a driverless taxi in San Francisco or anywhere else.
How about you?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/technology/waymo-driverless-cars-san-francisco.html

[Omg21]

I watched the same clip and thought exactly the same.

[Canary42]

No way (although it would be a nice change not to have to listen to a relentless Far Right monologue.)

[dustypuss]

Most taxi drivers act like robots

[barry1010]

Some taxi drivers work all day in another job and drive for hours at night, half asleep. That scares me.
Don’t trains and planes mostly operate themselves these days?

[retrocop]

No way. I would rather be master of my own destiny thank you.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-slashes-robotaxi-fleet-half-after-collision-incidents-san-francisco-2023-8?r=US&IR=T

[barry1010]

Do you never use planes, trains or coaches, retro? Or let your wife drive you?

[bhg481]

Watch a few dashcam videos on YouTube; see the antics of many licensed taxi drivers and then review your opinion.

[Buenchico]

I'd feel far safer in a driverless taxi than I would in the cars of quite a few taxi drivers that I've travelled with!

For example, some years ago a local taxi firm around here had a driver who only knew two speeds: 'stop' and 'go'. He'd drive at about twice the speed limit and then charge his passengers about 50% more for the journey than any of his colleagues did.

In Lille I travelled in a cab, in busy city centre traffic, where the driver was not only speeding but watching a movie on the screen below his dashboard at the same time!

[douglas9401]

Scientists have still to finalise the ambience of taxi driver miasma, settling in the meantime for gone-over milk brushed onto kippers then placed in a heating vent.

[Buenchico]

^^^ I think that the Turkish barber who cut my hair a couple of weeks ago had that stuff smeared all over him, Douglas :)