This
article is about Uber Eats cheating its gig workers, but I found this side mention in it interesting:
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Samii had moved to Pittsburgh to work for a self-driving car company, Argo.ai, a start-up funded by Ford and Volkswagen. He led a team that designed the user interface between human passengers and the autonomous vehicle, acting as a human-machine translator. But as he developed the software, he became aware that he was working on a two-tonne moving death-machine being tested on real roads. A wrong line of code could literally kill someone. In the summer of 2020, he quit, because he realised self-driving cars, while making driving safer, wouldn’t necessarily make cities any more liveable.
I think this is a point often missed. Cities, including, small cities, can work really well if they have enough walking space and public transportation.Even if self-driving cars were perfect — which they’ll never be — it is incredibly wasteful to clog things up so people have to get in them (and buy them) to get places instead of just walking or biking or taking the train.