Hyundai wird in den USA hergestellte IONIQ 5 an Waymos US-Robotaxi-Flotte liefern.

Submission Statement

I wonder what number of these will be robo-taxis in the next 18 months? Uber recently partnered with BYD to introduce 100,000 robo-taxis in Abu Dhabi and Singapore. When it gets to those kinds of numbers in the US, the wider public will really start to notice the driving job losses. Some day the shoe is going to drop, and people will realize all human driving jobs are on the way out forever.

These cars are at level 4 self-autonomous driving. That means they are fine on fixed routes that they know. That covers the majority of taxi journeys, that are mostly well worn routes, like going from airports to cities downtown districts.

If the car makers had the capacity to make enough cars like this, you could probably make at least half of existing taxi drivers unemployed right now. For all the rest of the driving jobs (truckers, delivery, etc), it’s just a matter of time before they disappear forever.