GM Anticipates $1B in Revenue from Self-Driving Taxis by 2025

[Richard]

If self driving taxis ever become viable, many big cities will be forced to ban them.

Such as the trucking disaster in California now because of Newsome. To get around a vote on tax increases for his idiot plans, he instead started charging $100,000 each for taxi cab medallions [[instead of $1,500 or the like). So when Uber and Lyft came along, the drivers and the finance companies lending for the medallions screamed, and Newsome had to institute a law banning independence contractors [[which also eliminated many truckers from picking up containers from CA ports).

They'll have to ban self driving taxis also, or at the very least, force their owners to buy the $100,000 + medallions off current taxi drivers.

The ramifications gets pretty complex when it comes to all of this,between EVs and driverless cars,we are talking about millions being put out of work or creating senários where the average wage earner will no longer be able to afford the products or services.

Maybe that is really the ultimate goal,make everybody dependent on a government check like cuba etc.

It gets to the point with a lot of this and in the name of the greater good,just because we can does not necessitate that we should .

[Jimaz]

San Francisco Is Teeming With Self-Driving Cars And It’s A Mess

Self-driving cars without safety drivers behind the wheel have flooded San Francisco streets. In August, two of the leading autonomous vehicle companies, General Motors-owned Cruise and Alphabet-owned Waymo, were granted permission to expand operations, allowing people to hail a driverless car like an Uber. But the launch has been plagued with issues. In October, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s permit to operate the company’s driverless fleet in the state, citing an incident in which a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian for 20 feet after a collision. Cruise had been quickly expanding to other cities including Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Miami, but the company paused driverless operations nationwide following the California suspension. Waymo is still operating robotaxis in San Francisco.

Before Cruise’s permit was revoked, CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa took a ride in one of its autonomous vehicles. She also gave Waymo a try and gives a comparison of the two very different rides. She also sat down with San Francisco city officials and Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise, to explore how the launch of robotaxis has been going for the city and what’s next.