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>They certainly can offer flexible hours to full time employees They can't guarantee flexibility and full-time employment. That's the point. >"Americans shalt

>They certainly can offer flexible hours to full time employees They can't guarantee flexibility and full-time employment. That's the point. >"Americans shalt work from nine until five so sayeth we the founders". If there is no demand or there is over-supply at some particular time in some particular area, you can't will a job into existence. >They're just griping that they need to start paying benefits. Are they griping? The costs are going to be passed down to the consumer. They will still be more competitive than taxis (which are still abysmal with customer service). And by raising regulatory costs and requirements, you're making it harder for any new entrants to come in and compete. Sounds like Uber and Left break-even, and everyone else loses. Alternatively, if this new regulation kills Uber and Lyft, then everyone loses.

jliptzin 6y ago
They are both just placeholders until we have robotaxi networks. 5-10 years max.
- ghaff 6y ago
  Do you really believe those aren't decades away for door-to-door?
  - three_seagrass 6y ago
    Waymo started publicly testing level 4 cars last year, and reportedly has 600 cars testing level 5. It isn't decades away anymore.
    - ghaff 6y ago
      I find it somewhat amusing there are still people bought into the self-driving hype other than in limited circumstances. Does anyone actually believe these companies at this point? Who actually aren't saying much any longer. I'd be far less surprised if Google shutdown Waymo in a year or two than if they actually introduced a door-to-door driving service in an urban area without a safety driver present.
      - pb7 6y ago
        You lack imagination. Only 66 years passed between the first manned flight on Earth and man stepping foot on the Moon. And technology is accelerating at a much faster rate today.
        ghaff 6y ago
        I would actually love to be wrong but nothing I can see convinces me that I am. I don't see the path to getting door-to-door in congested areas with pedestrians and cyclists that isn't even more dangerous for them than it is today. I actually do think highway driving can be automated relatively easily but that still assumes a competent licensed driver behind the wheel.
        xmprt 6y ago
        Would you believe someone who in 1970 said, "We landed a man on the moon. In 50 years we'll surely have flying cars!" I'm sure a lot of people believed that in 1970 but look where we are now. Technology accelerates at a much faster pace but often times in ways that you don't expect. The people in 1970 probably didn't imagine smartphones with a global 4G network but instead of flying cars we got this.
        ghaff 6y ago
        Or fusion power. Or natural language conversations with computers (as opposed to largely rote voice recognition). Deep learning/machine learning have made remarkable advances in recent years--primarily because of both computational (esp. GPU) and storage/data advances. However, in spite of a lot of money and talent expended on understanding organic brains and human-level cognition over the decades, progress has been slow and there's a general belief among scientists who work in AI spanning CS and neuroscience that there are aspects to human learning and reasoning that we just don't really understand yet. And that more deep learning, data, and programmed rules won't get you to autonomous vehicles outside of some limited domains. (Which is valuable by itself; it just doesn't get you to robo-taxies.)
        pb7 6y ago
- xwdv 6y ago
  Yes, and when a robotaxi crashes and kills people they’ll just write it off as a business expense.
  - nordsieck 6y ago
    > Yes, and when a robotaxi crashes and kills people they’ll just write it off as a business expense. Ok? We already do that when human driven taxis do that, so I don't see the problem.

jliptzin 6y ago

They are both just placeholders until we have robotaxi networks. 5-10 years max.

ghaff 6y ago
Do you really believe those aren't decades away for door-to-door?
- three_seagrass 6y ago
  Waymo started publicly testing level 4 cars last year, and reportedly has 600 cars testing level 5. It isn't decades away anymore.
  - ghaff 6y ago
    I find it somewhat amusing there are still people bought into the self-driving hype other than in limited circumstances. Does anyone actually believe these companies at this point? Who actually aren't saying much any longer. I'd be far less surprised if Google shutdown Waymo in a year or two than if they actually introduced a door-to-door driving service in an urban area without a safety driver present.
    - pb7 6y ago
      You lack imagination. Only 66 years passed between the first manned flight on Earth and man stepping foot on the Moon. And technology is accelerating at a much faster rate today.
      - ghaff 6y ago
        I would actually love to be wrong but nothing I can see convinces me that I am. I don't see the path to getting door-to-door in congested areas with pedestrians and cyclists that isn't even more dangerous for them than it is today. I actually do think highway driving can be automated relatively easily but that still assumes a competent licensed driver behind the wheel.
      - xmprt 6y ago
        Would you believe someone who in 1970 said, "We landed a man on the moon. In 50 years we'll surely have flying cars!" I'm sure a lot of people believed that in 1970 but look where we are now. Technology accelerates at a much faster pace but often times in ways that you don't expect. The people in 1970 probably didn't imagine smartphones with a global 4G network but instead of flying cars we got this.
        ghaff 6y ago
        Or fusion power. Or natural language conversations with computers (as opposed to largely rote voice recognition). Deep learning/machine learning have made remarkable advances in recent years--primarily because of both computational (esp. GPU) and storage/data advances. However, in spite of a lot of money and talent expended on understanding organic brains and human-level cognition over the decades, progress has been slow and there's a general belief among scientists who work in AI spanning CS and neuroscience that there are aspects to human learning and reasoning that we just don't really understand yet. And that more deep learning, data, and programmed rules won't get you to autonomous vehicles outside of some limited domains. (Which is valuable by itself; it just doesn't get you to robo-taxies.)
        pb7 6y ago
xwdv 6y ago
Yes, and when a robotaxi crashes and kills people they’ll just write it off as a business expense.
- nordsieck 6y ago
  > Yes, and when a robotaxi crashes and kills people they’ll just write it off as a business expense. Ok? We already do that when human driven taxis do that, so I don't see the problem.