Google Waymo will fully open self-driving taxis and robo-taxi in San Francisco.

Google Waymo will fully open self-driving taxis and robo-taxi in San Francisco. In other words, anyone can download the app and apply for it.

Some thoughts overlap.

First of all, autonomous driving came in suddenly. Many experts said that fully autonomous driving would not be feasible (technically or legally) in the very near future, but it became a reality.

If taxis start self-driving, the next is a cargo truck. It is much less burdensome than public transportation.

When autonomous driving begins in earnest, the amount of data accumulated will increase exponentially, which will greatly help in the elaboration of autonomous driving. This, in turn, increases the stability of autonomous driving and increases the demand for autonomous driving.

In terms of cost, positive feedback will also work. As the number of self-driving cars increases, the cost of entering individual cars will decrease, and the demand for self-driving will rise sharply as soon as this cost is lower than the labor cost for drivers.

In provincial areas, there will also be positive functions in terms of the number of public transportation operations by autonomous vehicles and expansion of routes. Currently, where buses run two to three times a day, people without their own cars or licenses are tied up in villages. Mainly women, the elderly and children.

But are you preparing for transportation workers? There will be a much stronger shock than the experience of "Tada."