Robo Taxi Requires No Driver And No Tip

@compfixer on twitter says "Robo Taxi- Requires no driver. It looks like something off the Jetsons!"

Can you imagine all the people getting in and not understanding how to set their route/destination? Nightmare.

maybe now i'll get a cab in nyc.

i cant wait til robots make all of us unemployed!! no seriously it will be a good thing....

I like to drive .

Just look at how far we have come in the last century. The first flight, The atomic bomb( not necessarily a good thing), solar power, The first manned space flight, the moon, landing rovers on Mars, laser weapons, cellular phones, engineering marvels like the Hoover dam, buildings over one hundred stories, electric trains, THE INTERNET, nuclear submarines, night vision, compact disks, DVDs, GPS, mp3, all of which would have been science fiction a short time ago. so just because something is on the cutting edge don't discount the possibility of seeing them in use within the near future. I still want my flying motorcycle!

probably won't happen.

Just like most futuristic stuff posted on Current, this will never happen.

man v. machine personally I hate to drive, I Think this would be great. What if your favorite pub had a few you could get tanked and get a free ride or even not free but sober. gps automated transports, It's good to be alive and to see the future unfold. about the cabbies, I'm sure they'll be fine, considering that they make money on service, people pay for the conversation or the lack of it, their biggest threat comes from the fuel pump.

so is our new objective in the country to take the human element out of every job we have? oh yea, that's been going on for awhile. Ever seen WallE?

Kinda looks like we would be driven around in a fridge...

Another "concept". I'm tired of concepts.... give me real atomic matter! Get some of these things BUILT then show them off or just shut up about it please.

I once took a taxi and I thought I was gonna die, but I also thought it was pretty cool.

That looks unsafe.

It looks dangerous

again, yet another reason to run to go see Terminator Salvation...

p.s. remember the robo-taxi's in Total Recall? And in I, Robot?

How does it detect cars around it?

Electric taxis which require driver would be better...in terms of unemployment.

My question is about employment. Unfortunately we live in a capitalistic society with poor and rich, and uneducated and educated. I don't think it is very possible for an entire market to go robot on us, at least not quickly. Perhaps new employments in monitoring and maintaining robo-taxis will make up the issue of no taxi drivers.

"Oh look a box with no one guarding it that contains thousands and thousands of dollars worth batteries made from precious metals... And hey! It even rolls!"

great, but how does it drive with other traffic? where is the information about the motion detectors and the results of those tests? that's what I want to know before we start discussing any futuristic ideas. Where's the infrastructure?

Then you decide not to pay and it locks you inside hahahahaa