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Uber and Lyft want to ban you from owning your own self-driving car

by on05 February 2018


The great unwashed are not to be trusted

Everyone’s favourite taxi companies, Uber and Lyft, want politicians to stop the great unwashed from owning self-driving cars.

Apparently, the pair has realised that it will limit their revenues if the great unwashed can own self-driving cars and never need a taxi.

According to Mercury News, Uber and Lyft want to see big corporations operating fleets of them in dense urban areas.

Uber and Lyft are signatories to a new list of transportation goals developed by a group of international non-governmental organisations and titled "Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities". 

According to Principle No. 10: "Shared fleets can provide more affordable access to all, maximise public safety and emissions benefits, ensure that maintenance and software upgrades are managed by professionals."

Its stated reason is to "actualise the promise of reductions in vehicles, parking, and congestion, in line with broader policy trends to reduce the use of personal cars in dense urban areas." But others remain suspicious.

All this shows is that if corporations get what they want, we will have a dystopian nightmare where big outfits spend their lives working out ways to screw over ordinary people.

Of course, they could just rely on Tesla's business plan which makes self-driving cars so expensive that ordinary people can’t afford them and they are forced to rely on fleets run by splendid specimens of the corporate business model such as Uber and Lyft.

Last modified on 05 February 2018
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