But the idea of driverless cars replacing human-driven taxis has been the cause of some alarm. Dennis Conyon of the UK National Taxi Association says that drivers will become unemployed. London has about 22,000 licensed black cabs and Conyon estimates that the total number of people who drive taxis for hire in the UK is about 100,000.
Approximately how many taxi drivers are there in the UK?
100,000 22,000 Unknown, as many drivers are not part of the UK National Taxi Association Almost none, as most are now working for Uber and Lyft