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Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.
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Uber's (and all the rest of the Silicon Valley illegal taxi racket) entire business model is "exploit humans until we invent Johnnycabs"
I think the only thing keeping them from going full auto right now is that humans keep accepting shittier and shittier conditions in order to keep the robopocalypse at bay.
I don't really like automated cars because I don't think they're safe, either for the passengers (who have at least accepted what they're getting into) or pedestrians (who have not), but I don't think that's ever slowed the "march of progress" before now.
Self driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to be better than humans. Which is not the highest of bars.
And yet they aren't.
I would argue they are safe, in fact they are too safe, so safe that if their program gets confused it will just stop in the middle of an intersection and not move because it's 'not safe'.
They're safer than humans already. It's just you hear about every robocar crash because they're unusual, and every time one happens, the whole industry learns from it. With humans driving, it's doubtful the people involved learn from a crash, let alone anyone else, we just accept it as inevitable.
Don't forget about the people in all of the other cars on the road. For example, Tesla's have repeatedly plowed into stationary emergency vehicles.