The Floor
When will a driverless taxi pick people up in your city?
It already happens in a handful of places. Say when it reaches yours.
Concluded from · A paying passenger picked up with no safety driver aboard, reported by the operator.
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Share of the room per band, 0 to 100 per cent. The bands run in order and the shade runs with them, light to dark.
Where you stand
The room's largest group answered "Within five years".
Answered as you did
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Lead over second
7 pts
"Within five years" is ahead
Everyone here
1,058
52 changed their mind
How divided
Genuinely divided
agreed → even
| Answer | Share of the room | People | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Already does | 41 | 4% | |
| Within two years | 188 | 18% | |
| Within five yearsmost | 402 | 38% | |
| Within ten years | 331 | 31% | |
| Not in my lifetime | 96 | 9% |
Settles by 1 Feb · The operator's public service announcements decides it.
1,058 have taken a position · 52 changed their mind · 3 reasons
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Three operators now run without safety drivers
- Snow and heavy rain remain unsolved for most fleets
- City licensing has averaged eighteen months
How the room moved
Share of the room, 0 to 100 per cent · 19 Aug to now
What settles this, and when it closes
Settles on the first public, driverless, paid passenger service operating in the answerer's stated city.
Source: The operator's public service announcements · expected by 1 Feb
Counting closes on 1 Jan.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Noor E.@noor_e· 8 Sept
Licensing is the constraint, not the driving. Eighteen months is the average and nobody has even filed here.
Tobias G.@tobias_g· 9 Sept
It goes from impossible to ordinary in about eighteen months once the first permit lands. That is what happened in every city that has one.
Christine A.@christine_a· 10 Sept
Weather is not a detail. Half the year here the lane markings are under water or snow, and no fleet has solved that anywhere.
