Driverless car also need maintenance, servicing, programming,
and so on,...and down the value chain, it created better paid and
better skill jobs, like service center, better road leading to more
road work, GPS pods control, marshals and station
orderly.
For a start, it will be in parks, university and some other
recreation places like GBTB and MBS. Then
it will slowly move into heartland and expressway.
Companies that operate driverless shall be responsible for it
insurance and pax safety.
We as older singaporeans should not be so selfish to prevent new
technology and innovation for our younger generation future jobs,
therefore, we cannot keep thinking abt driving taxis forever, a
responsible human/citizen is one who care for the family, the
nation and also the future succession of people.
That is truly a hero. But too bad, hero die first…
Our forefather worked hard and bear the changes to provided a
better life for our father, and our father also worked hard and go
with the changes to provide a better life for us.
If we are to neglect and stubbornly prevent changes in the way
we travel and work just because of our selfishness of the present,
then, we are doing no flavor to our next generation.
Be enlighten so as to inspire others
We
can survive without a single driverless
taxis in Singapore unlike our manufacturing factories that cannot
survive without robots.
Who is being selfish? The people who want to eliminate
55,000 Singaporean jobs (without providing a real replacement
solution) or the potential victims? How many new driverless
car jobs (for Singaporeans in Singapore) would be created and how
many old Singaporean jobs would be lost? I am speaking not
only for myself but also for other Singaporeans that need taxi
driving as main and backup job. What happens when the very
limited number of Singaporean driverless cars researchers in
Singapore lose their jobs? We welcome them to join us as
taxi drivers together with people in other industries that gets
retrenched (provided they already are experienced car drivers and
could pass the taxi exams).
I currently see it as eliminating a ratio of 100 jobs but only
creating a ratio of only 1-10 additional jobs.
Also remember this fact, the taxi course is always fully filled
and the waiting queue is around 1 month's long. So
this job is a job that a lot of Singaporeans want to do (and the
country has a real demand for it and it is self-sustaining without
the government having to pump in any money for it and the
government collects a lot of GST from it) ......so do we want to
eliminate it?