Our Robo-taxi future is arriving quicker in China; One new service is already doing 100,000 rides per day at 10 cents per km (16c per mile).

This video gives an interesting overview.

It's quite critical of the CCP (if you watch to the end it talks of government prison camps for troublesome unemployed people). It lumps AI & robotics into the same "bad" category it puts the CCP.

Carrot RoboTaxi, the firm it talks about, has its technical rough edges. But as people say about AI – it gets relentlessly better. These problems will fade.

Tens of millions of people in Western countries rely on driving jobs of one sort or another. Gig work tides many over in financial emergencies. When that is taken away, I suspect the impact on society will be huge. In France, they take to the streets and bring Paris to a standstill for far smaller things. I wonder how they'll react to robo-taxis now they are becoming a reality.