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The Real Case for Driverless Mobility part three

Techstination feature for Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     With all of the billions of dollars that have been invested by companies like Alphabet with Waymo and GM with Cruise and others…in successfully developing the technology to offer robotaxis…what now?   Are they just going to give us an alternative to driving ourselves …or taking an Uber or Lyft to the airport?  In the new book, The Real Case for Driverless Mobility, Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser and co-author Michael Sena argue that the focus should be on creating driverless mobility services for people who really need rides, that can be affordable without having to pay a driver…

“And provide a service so that we don’t go bankrupt.  We don’t beg from the public sector."

Kornhauser says a private driverless mobility company can make money providing rides for as little as three dollars.  More in our next report.

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