I thought it was me. I had to read the article 6 times trying to figure out what I was missing.

Of course Uber was thinking about self driving cars. Uber was founded in 2010. A group of students from Carnegie Mellon took a trip in a self driving car from PA to DC in 1994.

I don’t think we are doing that at all. There is Lyft and Fasten and the city of Austin has five or six different companies now.

That’s why Uber is RUNNING.

Public transportation won’t go away but now we can Uber to the nearest train station eliminating the need for those unsightly parking structures.

I would imagine they will be much safer. Every single car can slow down and operate at exactly the same speed and can stay X number of feet away from the car in front of it.

Every time there is a car crash there is a lawsuit. There will be far fewer crashes so there will be far fewer lawsuits. Lawyers may need to start looking for new careers.

This will free up tons of real estate too. We won’t need to have streets wide enough for cars to park. As development occurs streets can be narrowed. We won’t even need driveways or garages opening up a lot more space on peoples existing land.

A rental car may earn $100/day in revenue. A driverless car will pull in several hundreds dollars per day since it will operate 24/7.

Not true. PA does not have any law that requires a driver. Uber only has the driver there now because they are testing. I’m guessing many other states do not either. Why would they?

But what is the major issue that government entities have had? Background checks for drivers......

It’s already here in Pittsburgh man.......

lol. It has nothing to do with trust. Insurance companies NEED accidents in order to stay in business. Jacking up a customers rate is how they make money. They will no longer be able to do this. Uber could probably self insure the vehicles the same way many large companies self insure their employees health insurance.…

You are forgetting a major component. A driver can only drive X number of hours per week. A driverless car will run 24/7. Not only will it run 24/7 it will never need to be idle. There will be no more surge pricing as the cars will know exactly where they need to be at the right time. It will know the local shopping…