<story><title>Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.&lt;p&gt;Not passing judgement or anything, just kind of a strange thing to contemplate..&lt;p&gt;Uber kept saying they were disrupting the taxi industry by letting more people participate when really in the end they&amp;#x27;re trying to remove the people from the equation altogether.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>In the same way McD and other places are replacing attendants with tablets. Or, in a similar vein, how Netflix replaced sending DVDs through the mail with the Internet&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a job, not a career&lt;p&gt;And I suspect there&amp;#x27;s some 3 years at least before self-driving is &amp;quot;production ready&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.&lt;p&gt;Not passing judgement or anything, just kind of a strange thing to contemplate..&lt;p&gt;Uber kept saying they were disrupting the taxi industry by letting more people participate when really in the end they&amp;#x27;re trying to remove the people from the equation altogether.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Roritharr</author><text>Most Uber drivers i&amp;#x27;ve talked to about this, and i basically always talk about this when using Uber, all see themselves as just doing this for a short while, 2-3 years, so they don&amp;#x27;t see themselves being affected by this.</text></comment>