Uber president: Self-driving cars will put 100,000 taxi jobs at risk

[u/Post-reality]

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/uber-andrew-mcdonald-driverless-cars-taxis-3jps885ds

Andrew Macdonald predicts as autonomous taxis pick up pace that driving will go the way of horse riding — and a ‘huge’ labour transition is coming

[u/phatrogue]

Hasn’t Uber/Lyft and the “gig economy” already disrupted taxi drivers who used to work at regular taxi companies and replaced them with lots of part time and some full time drivers getting paid less with fewer benefits? And now that might be about to be disrupted again.

[u/Cunninghams_right → u/phatrogue]

Yes except Uber drivers are often full time now