'Self driving car won't kill jobs' Uber CEO
"In fact, I think in an autonomous world, it goes up" Dozens of autonomous Uber vehicles are about to be roaming the streets of Pittsburg , but the company’s chief executive says its human drivers have nothing to worry about. “I don’t think the number of human drivers will go down anytime soon,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told Business Insider. “In fact, I think in an autonomous world, it goes up.” Many observers argue that autonomous cars pose a threat to professional drivers, who seemingly stand to be outmoded by the technology. Kalanick, however, claims that such vehicles will still require human labor for two reasons. First, they aren’t great at handling certain road conditions, like bad whether or countryside driving. Until the robot cars master those situations, human drivers will be necessary. Second, those robot cars still require people to maintain them. (For now, anyway.) Here’s Kalanick’s full quote: Business Insider: H...
