The author makes good points, but his understanding of Ubers vision is very limited. It's not about drivers or passengers, it's an API to get stuff from A to B,

The author makes good points, but his understanding of Ubers vision is very limited. It's not about drivers or passengers, it's an API to get stuff from A to B, be it people or goods. Also, describing self driving cars in city traffic as "unlikely" really misses the point that self driving cars are driving in city traffic right now and have been doing that for years. They are too expensive to be commercially viable, but that's definitely going to change in the near future.