Taxi Driver Online

Also , GM motors will have their first driverless car on sale by 2018.


The taxi industry as we know will be gone by the end of the decade.

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/01/ ... -near-you/



The Downside of this Technology

Driverless cars will dramatically affect employment around the world.

Over time over 232,000 taxi and limo drivers in the U.S. will lose their jobs.
Over 647,000 bus drivers will be out of work.
Over 125,000 truck drivers will be looking for new careers.
Other jobs affected will include jobs at gas stations, parking lots, car washes, traffic cops, traffic courts, doctors, nurses, pizza delivery, mail delivery, FedEx and UPS jobs, as well as vehicle manufacturing positions.

you are of course assuming that if everyone took their driverless cars out to the restaurant/nightclub etc that there would be parking space and that the law would allow you to be in charge of such a vehicle if you are over the drink drive limit

I assume if you were pulled by the police that you would have to take it off driverless mode and onto manual

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

So they'd get a driverless taxi instead?

I don't think these driverless systems are quite that clever yet there would still need to be someone in charge of the vehicle in case of emergencies or system failures etc

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

In which case the original point made is irrelevant, as is your follow up?

I think you fail to understand that ( eventually ) driverless cars will drop of it's "driver" or passengers at a bar for example before finding a parking space on its own with GPS.

It will then return to pick up the passengers when they contact it to do so by cell phone. In fact if a driverless cars owner is going on holiday then the car will drop him or her at the airport and return to his or her home , park in the driveway before returning to the airport to pick them back up 2 weeks later!

Taxi drivers will become a thing of the past in the next decade if not sooner.


This video will give you better idea of what I'm saying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyk1VLTSH_U

Until the first person gets killed and they spend a hundred years sorting out whose to blame

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What a load of old [edited by admin].

how long have sat nav's been around and yet councils still insist on strict knowledge tests.

I can't imagine how long it would take for a licensing committee to put it's neck on the line over this one.

This is just a horror story from a bitter old man (actually it sounds more like an old woman) who has nothing to do all day but spread gossip and wild stories. Go and collect your pension dear, you can hold up the queue by telling the cashier how old you are and how you still do your own shopping, and how those nasty Taxi Drivers don't give you a discount even though you lived through a war for the likes of them.

And finally, Who cares?
I like this job, but if it ended tomorrow I would just move on.

Well said that man!

Me too

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And will it fill itself up with fuel on the way home to?

Yes. Eventually but in the meantime the taxi company will obviously maintain and fill the vehicles before each shift.

Last weeks edition of The New York Times.

"Nevada became the first state to legalize driverless vehicles last year, and similar laws have now been introduced before legislatures in Florida and Hawaii

Several people with knowledge of the company’s plans said that Google’s lobbying for state laws to permit autonomous driving indicated that it hoped to introduce such vehicles soon — driverless delivery vans or taxis, as early as 2013 or 2014".



http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/motorshows ... _2011.html

We already have "pilotless aircraft" modern aircraft can, (and often do,) take off and land by autopilot, and certainly cruise at altitude by the same method. If you landing is exeptionally smooth it is almost certainly autopilot. The question is, would you get onto a plane without a pilot (or pilots) on board? I wouldn't.

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Former taxi driver

Would you know?

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Grandad,

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surely you cant be serious

i am, and stop calling me shirley

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The US military fly drones over Afghanistan by remote control from the USA

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most