Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been vocal about the company’s desire to move away from human drivers and toward self-driving cars, as soon as possible.
That day is still in the future, though, and for the moment, Uber is stuck in a globe-spanning collection of fights with taxi commissions and city governments. Uber has mostly been able to win these fights.
But presumably the advent of self-driving cars will lead to round two of these regulatory battles, and with the current Uber drivers standing in opposition to self-driving machines.
I hope and expect the forward march of progress to continue, but it is ironic that in order to prevail today, Uber is setting up a potential problem for tomorrow.
Originally published at www.davidincalifornia.com on October 5, 2015.
David Silver 