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ZipCar, Uber, and other rideshare companies want to make it illegal to own your own self-driving car in the city.
https://cei.org/blog/uber-wants-make-it-illegal-operate-your-own-self-driving-car-cities
Should it be legal to own your own self-driving car?
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I live in the burbs. How would I drive into the city on my cool AV? Park in the outskirts and then switch to Uber? Sounds like a horrible idea.
Some people do that with public transportation where they switch to the subway system. So basically, Uber just wants to take over city's public buses and trains. Pretty obvious.
Our tax money pays for the infrastructure and the roads. It's completely shameless that a private company wants to make all their money by monopolizing it
Unless they plan to pay for all of it, this better not fly. they also would have to buy hat real estate too. Buy all the roads and maintain them yourselves. Then I'm ok with it.
Well, I mean, Uber pays taxes too. All companies make money using public resources to varying extents.
But that said, this idea of theirs is stupid.
The point is that they want to ban others and keep certain people, demographic, and businesses away from using the infrastructure.
They probably will claim this for all AVs but how convenient that they are the dominant force and will be the one benefit the most.
They're not saying no one else can use the road. AVs don't require any special infrastructure, that's not the issue here.
You are right. I read it wrong. We can still drive our own cars and buses and trucks can still use the road.
With that said, this makes sense even less. So they want to ban all "personally owned self-driving cars"? Not sure what personally owned or business owned have anything to do with it.
Wait, wait. Melissa is right. Uber's proposed "principle" does ban all vehicles that are not part of the "automated shared fleets." So human-operated delivery trucks, taxis, private or personally owned vehicles will all be banned. and no you can't drive your own cars either.
"Uber, Lyft, ZipCar and others propose outlawing personally owned self-driving cars in central cities, leaving the entire urban core market for automated road vehicles in the hands of corporate fleet owners"
I'm not seeing that. This is the stated principle in question:
10. WE SUPPORT THAT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (AVS) IN DENSE URBAN AREAS SHOULD BE OPERATED ONLY IN SHARED FLEETS.
Due to the transformational potential of autonomous vehicle technology, it is critical that all AVs are part of shared fleets, well-regulated, and zero emission. Shared fleets can provide more affordable access to all, maximize public safety and emissions benefits, ensure that maintenance and software upgrades are managed by professionals, and actualize the promise of reductions in vehicles, parking, and congestion, in line with broader policy trends to reduce the use of personal cars in dense urban areas.
Actually, you are still right. Uber is indeed trying to keep certain demographic and cars off the roads, i.e. their turf.
Basically, they wan to keep their competition of rideshare AVs off of the road. This is weird though. Doesn't this hurt their original goal to have everyone be driving in their spare time? This move will just make them be the next taxi company.
Agreed. UberSubway, baby.
So Uber's trying to become a taxi company now huh. Maybe the local governments should give out medallions for the right to operate an AV.
Sounds like it. They want these cars to be approved and licenses for being the "commercially owned self-driving cars." and on top of that, they want to promise reductions in vehicles, parking, and congestion.... that's the medallion system!
The writer must have been proud to come up with this line.
"Uber sees the competition of the future—and it’s you."
LOL
hahaha, so true.
That doesn't make any sense. Isn't the point of self-driving cars that they, you know, drive themselves? What does it matter if I own it or Uber owns it?
What about my Tesla?
Yes please. I want my own car where I can dump empty mountain dew cans and pizza boxes and not have to worry about getting a cleaning fee for it.
I'm all for rideshare companies using self driving cars but come on.
Plus I want to put my own cool devices in it. TV etc. Make my own little self-driving palace.
I'm taking out a loan to get one of these babies! My commute will be so amazing, I'll be eating eggs and bacon and just cruising along.
This is ridiculous. Uber needs to be brought down a peg.