Waymo self driving taxis are highly preferrable over Uber from a customer perspective I think I use Uber A LOT and there's endless problems with it: - drivers playing loud music - drivers on speaker phone calls for entire ride - drivers always complaining about Uber not giving them enough money (esp in US) - drivers then trying to cancel ride so you pay off app in cash - smelly and dirty cars (tobacco smell or just dirty) - drivers use you as a therapist and vent their entire life to you (50% of the time) - drivers visibly on drugs Waymo is now live in SF, LA, soon Austin and Miami and in a few years in Europe and similar self driving taxi companies in the rest of the world (China already has them of course) Technological change is inevitable so whether I agree with the social problems of unemployment, it will happen regardless I think the problem right now is that the average quality of human services is so bad already that it's not even a challenge for AI to replace humans If avg human service quality was high it would be harder, but that's because people in service industry are paid low now and scraping by so logically they won't do much effort (I wouldn't either) That makes the economics of AI replacing humans even more likely and even more rapid to come