November 17, 2015
...AND CHEAPER...:
Get ready for driverless taxis at 25 cents a mile (Andrea Chan, 11/17/15, LA Times)
Eric Spiegelman, president of the Los Angeles Taxicab Commission, said Angelenos will one day be able to hail taxibots, or driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles will be able to get people from place to place while bringing costs drastically down, he said."Driverless cars have the potential to solve certain intractable social inequity problems," he said.For one, fares will decrease by 85%, to about 25 cents a mile, he predicted.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 17, 2015 7:22 PM