there’s nearly one million Uber and Lyft drivers in the United States and close to four million worldwide. The problem with losing these jobs is that, more often than not, the people who work them are already on the fringe of employment. These jobs are often worked by people who either have a main job that doesn’t pay them enough or who are unable to get work otherwise.

Considering the amount of money Uber and Lyft have invested in driverless cars, there’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that current drivers are working themselves out of a job. And this is just the beginning.


http://www.sfexaminer.com/universal-basic-income-ease-pain-replaced-robots/

don't need to read the rest of the story about universal income...But...UBER is investing heavily on self driving cars and they may be replacing all the current drivers and their brand new cars...many of those cars bought on financing.......10 years ago, it was housing crisis now it will be mini uber crisis...I hope to be wrong but it may end up so...

this video is from a week ago....DMV has approved live testing... now what ...by this time next year...

yo aayera deiver haru lai kehi असर parne wala chaina bhai ... riders love the fastest way to work .... driverless car will rely on the shit navigation that ubee use .. i totally hated the navigation when i drove for uber....

People may love the fastest way to work...but more than that...people love the cheapest cost to go to work...if these driverless cars eliminate driver , that savings to have to pay the driver will go towards giving discount to customers. Majority of people use uber, coz it's cheaper than taxi..Much cheaper and it comes pick you up and drop you off. Uber pool express is like bikram tempo or safa tempo...they pick people on the way..to your destination...and if the same can be done by driverless car....uber might as well put one more customer in the drivers seat...just thinking...and all of this is coming in the next years.. ....it's looking so....there are robots serving coffee now...flipping burgers now....business owners will love to save money on employees....the self check out stands at grocery stores are always busy and so on..... this post..is just FYI to uber drivers ..... there is always evolution in how things work...before it was telelphone now it is smart phone...it was letters now it is email..text ..etc..so anything is possible in this high tech world...just watch out...

one thing might slow down or even not let this driverless car to happen...is the cost of the vehicle and technology...i don't know how much it cost...and what are the legal implications of it...but if the big guys (wall street and politicians and insurance companies)...all shake hands...then they will make anything happen...anyway...post was for fyi only...please don't be offended ...i'm sharing other side of the story...

I am waiting for that day when human drivers will be completely replaced self driving cars. Humans are pathetic driver and must be drive in road.