Google's
self-driving car
“Google
unveiled a brand new self-driving car prototype on Tuesday; the first
company to build a car with no a steering wheel, accelerator or brake
pedal.”
“It
is the first truly driverless electric car prototype built by Google
to test the next stage of its five-year-old self-driving car
project.”
“It
is the first real physical incarnation of Google’s vision of what a
self-driving car of the near future could be.”
“Once
the journey is done, the small screen displays a message to remind
you to take your personal belongings – reinforcing that this is not
aiming to be a substitute for your personal car at the moment, but
more as a replacement for the taxi without the human driver.”
“They
are designed to be more like shared vehicles, possibly within a
family or more likely as a replacement for taxis.”
“A
law was passed in California over a year ago that made the testing
and operation of self-driving vehicles on roads possible, as long as
they had manual override controls. The Department of Motor Vehicles
in California is expected to issue regulations on the operation of
self-driving cars soon, after which self-driving cars may become a
bit more common place.”
It seems that professional drivers are in danger to
become unemployed this time. Even services sector could become
hyper-automatized. It is characteristic that Troika in Greece is
forcing the government to "open" all professions. Although
for example, private taxi owners and drivers form a quite saturated
sector, which means that there are too many in every Greek town, the
government promotes the "opening" of this sector which
means that, a few multinational companies will soon prevail
"dragging" prices even lower and making current
small-medium taxi owners and drivers impossible to withstand the
competition. Imagine the day when these companies would be able to
own fleets without any drivers! More profit for them, more unemployed
drivers!
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