Uber are sending 100,000 driverless cars to Europe to operate as taxis, so we hit the streets of Manchester to see whether your average Manc would trust them.
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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World. Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester talking to people
00:03about driverless cars. That's because Uber are sending over 100,000 driverless cars to access
00:08taxis here in Europe. So how do people feel about that? Would you be happy driving around in a car
00:12with no driver? Well, let's find out. I've seen Total Recall, I can go horribly wrong.
00:18The only reason why I say no is because that means it's going to be putting a lot of people
00:22out of jobs, a lot of minorities out of jobs. Some people feed their families based off their
00:26Uber drivers, because I go on Ubers a lot, and when I speak to them, that's literally all they
00:32do. I've seen the ones in America, have you seen them? No. I've seen them in America on my Instagram
00:36and stuff like that, and they seem pretty good. So if they're the same ones as them, it might work.
00:44Essentially, because it's who's responsible if there was an issue, who's responsible if there's
00:49a crash. If a driver is in the car, then they're responsible. In the case of taxis,
00:55they're a professional driver. So yeah, it's a case of responsibility.