Lyft chapter: unmanned vehicles are not the future

Google, Tesla and Mercedes are working on unmanned vehicles, and the head of the Lyft taxi service, Logan Green, is disavowing such a future. Does he believe that robotic cars will not become commonplace for us, or does he have a different motivation? After all, the words of the head of Uber "Unmanned vehicles are the future, and drivers are not" very upset the drivers working with this service.

“Look, this is exactly the way the world goes. If Uber does not follow him, then this does not mean that there will be another way. The world is not always beautiful, ”- so Travis Kalanik last May reassured drivers who were afraid to lose the way to earn money. Then on Twitter, he added that we are talking about the year 2035.

Drivers on @uber_nyc making $ 90k / yr Driverless car is a multi-decade transition. Let's take a breath and I'll see you in the year 2035

- travis kalanick (@travisk) May 28, 2014

Logan Green believes that the transport world will undergo changes in the next five years: more and more people will choose to rent cars rather than buy their own. The elimination of personal vehicles is essentially Lyft's mission, even if it is mostly known as a competitor to Uber. “Our goal has never been to improve taxis. We want to make car ownership unnecessary, ”Green told SXSW .

Eliminating the need to have a car has serious consequences for society and the market. This is not only an increase in the income of services for ordering a taxi, but also a decrease in the infrastructure necessary for cars, the transition of a taxi to a new social norm, and an increase in the income of an individual.

Green's position is that robotic cars will not replace drivers. It goes against the position of the head of Uber, so that it can be expressed precisely for the purpose of differentiating the two services. And in order to lure drivers to the side of Lyft.

In any case, experts are sure that it will take many more years to transfer cars to autonomous control. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, speaks of twenty years . Developers have to greatly improve the system of object recognition, cope with control at speeds from 24 to 80 kilometers per hour and set up a constant security update and solve many problems, including infrastructure.