Uber has launched a new partnership which will see 100,000 driverless cars coming to Europe. How would you feel about taking a taxi with no one behind the wheel? Are you embracing the new tech or would you be apprehensive and why? Taxi drivers have complained they’re being done out of a job - are you worried or excited about a future where our jobs are replaced by ‘robots’?
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00:00I'm really good about driving myself but I wouldn't be feeling safe to use a driverless car
00:08at the moment with the infrastructures and with the people still driving
00:13so not for the coming few years maybe in the future who knows.
00:18I'd be very sad because I love chatting to the taxi drivers I'd be very sad if there
00:23wasn't a person there. Would you feel safe in a driverless taxi? No, not in this country because
00:28I don't see how the system's been developed in America and having driven quite a lot in America
00:34they have huge road networks that everything revolves around in this country that's not so
00:40just look at this junction here it's uh I don't see how you could have driverless vehicles that
00:44would be safe in a British it'd be it'd be safe on on the motorways but not once you're off even
00:50then I think it's questionable so I think it's uh I certainly want to use a driverless taxi in
00:57Bristol.