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Chinese tech hub's shift into robotaxis leaves drivers by the wayside
- awedisee 3mo agoOP doing gods work by sharing the gist as a comment for a paid article. Wish more did this.
- bazzmt 3mo ago"China’s southern technology hub of Shenzhen is paving the way for the rollout of self-driving vehicles, a move that puts it at the forefront of the march to automation but is set to anger hundreds of thousands of hard-pressed taxi drivers. The rules, which will allow the government to permit robotaxis from July 1, stand to threaten an army of taxi and ride-hailing drivers in one of China’s biggest cities, many of whom have already been displaced by automation and offshoring from the factories that powered the country’s breakneck economic growth."