Driverless taxis going to roll out in Japan 5 years later

last SG · 2015-10-09T11:53:34+00:00

I don't think remote controls is the cause of the drop in TV sales. It is very likely due to the fact that streamed movies are easily available on mobile pho...

bowah SG

If you still want to drive, can also drive for many others, from uber to grab to ambalance to concrete mix truck to tipper truck to forklift…why must be taxis???

Democratically speaking, if 70% agreed on the influx of foreigners, what can you do??? Not happy, they can tell you, please hor Uncle, Changi AP and the 2 checkpoints operate 24 hrs, only Harbour front and Tanah Merah FT operate from 9am to 10pm, by all means, you are free to go.

Neutral-Thinker SG

If you still want to drive, can also drive for many others, from uber to grab to ambalance to concrete mix truck to tipper truck to forklift…why must be taxis???

I don't think 70% agreed on influx of foreigners......it is just 70% that wants PAP to stay in power due to proven past records. Also not all districts were contested by competent non-PAP candidates (Singaporeans would never endorse not worthy of becoming MP candidates).

Keepthechange666 SG

Traffic light spoilt nia already can see the chow of traffic.......

Driverless?.......

bowah SG

My goodness, whether that 70% agreed or not to immigration policies, they already endorsed the govt to implement it, Govt holds power on the basis of the strong 70% backing that give them the autonomy to make policies and regulations and increase they own paid.

Neutral-Thinker SG

This is the likely scenario in future ( http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/union-leader-prepares-own-retrenchment ) therefore we cannot allow driverless car in otherwise too many Singaporeans would lose jobs and those in other industries would have no backup jobs.

Even Union Leader wants taxi driving as backup job. Likely more and more companies would shift out of Singapore due to high cost. So many more would need taxi driving as backup job.

bowah SG

We cannot stop technology, society and people will naturally change at the brink of it existence. In the light of when british decided to pull out their navy base and army out of Singapore in the 60s, we decided to go industrialization,

Prior to them announcing pulling out, we were all happily doing our service and job, when announced, we got no choice, but to move in that direction, and everyone, including the world and locals think Singapore cannot make it. But we did.

We must all prepare for creative destruction, and not rest on our laurel in the comfort of our cocoon, change is inevitable, and destruction of old method of doing or driving is inevitable so as to make way for new way of transportation, from man pulling trishaw to today driverless, one creation shall destruct the others existence.

And our situation in denying driverless entry is the same as those in the early 20 century, where man pull trishaw objected diesel driven engine car.

Neutral-Thinker SG

And our situation in denying driverless entry is the same as those in the early 20 century, where man pull trishaw objected diesel driven engine car.

What are the advantages (only real tangible benefits; intangible benefits not counted) of driverless taxis?

What are the trade-off Singaporeans have to give up for driverless cars? A lot of jobs, safety, backup jobs, decent living, social orders, tax revenues....

Not worth it.....

Driverless taxis are for countries where taxi fares are too expensive.

Who really gains from it? Mostly car manufacturing countries and very little Singaporeans.

Who are the people pushing for it?

Car manufacturing countries and people they sponsor, employ, and bribe.

Remember most of the car manufacturing countries have very expensive taxi fares which is the reason why there started R&D on driverless cars.

Can we survive without driverless taxis? YES.

Will we be left behind without driverless taxis? NO

If there going to be equally good replacement jobs if 55,000 purely Singaporean jobs are lost? NO

What could Singaporeans do if more Singaporeans are retrenched and 55,000 purely Singaporean taxi drivers jobs are lost? ??????

Who gains from introduction of driverless taxis? Mostly foreigners.

Who loses from introduction of driverless taxis? Singaporeans.

Why till now only trains are the only driverless vehicles being implemented in public places? Because there are no traffic on their path and they are 100% safe as driverless vehicles. Even little traffic on the path commercial planes are deemed as not safe without human control.

Can driverless cars go at 90 km/h safely in all weather? No

Can driverless cars handle wheel chairs and weak passengers? No

Car driverless cars help with luggages? No

Can driverless cars handle problems at parking lot gantry points if there are malfunctions? No

Can driverless cars take simple instructions like stop beside the Green Car after the shelter? No

Can driverless cars handle road blockages? No

Can driverless cars handle all carparks scenarios? No

Can driverless cars deal with fare evaders? No

Can driverless cars be easilly trapped on the road or in the carpark? Yes...you just have to put one cone in front and one cone at the back for it to be trapped.

Can driverless cars handle the instructions of marshallers at places like hotels and airports?

Can driverless cars handle a situation like lane diversion on expressways (two lanes blocked due to accident) ?

Can driverless cars handle police road blockages and nagvigate through newly created obstacle paths ? No

The list of things that driverless cars cannot do goes on and on.

Humans are alive, machines are dead .... it requires too much effort to teach a dead machine how to do everything.

Taxilim88 SG

Some suggestions indicated against the questions. No right or wrong answers.

Can we survive without driverless taxis? YES.[Driverless taxis are good to have and it will likely be offered as an alternative option, not a replacement for all taxis]

Will we be left behind without driverless taxis? NO

What could Singaporeans do if more Singaporeans are retrenched and 55,000 purely Singaporean taxi drivers jobs are lost? ??????

Who gains from introduction of driverless taxis? Mostly foreigners.[Not sure about this]

Can driverless cars go at 90 km/h safely in all weather? No [ They do not need to go at 90km/h. All weather? Singapore only Sunny and Rainy. No snow, no typhoons, no hurricanes..so no problem].

Can driverless cars handle wheel chairs and weak passengers? No [No problem. Pax will understand beforehand and will help load themselves].

Car driverless cars help with luggages? No [No problem. Pax can load themselves. They will understand. You mean currently, the taxi unker got come out and help meh? hehe].

Can driverless cars handle road blockages? No [Yes. Technologically possible with advanced sensors].

Can driverless cars handle all carparks scenarios? No [As mentioned above].

Can driverless cars deal with fare evaders? No [Driverless cars no cash payments. All through credit cards lah like Uber. Alamak].

Can driverless cars be easilly trapped on the road or in the carpark? Yes...you just have to put one cone in front and one cone at the back for it to be trapped.[ Pax are not stupid. They can come out and remove the cones. If got no pax on board and on the way to pick up point, at most no show only wat. Nobody gets hurt. Not like current taxis dun have no show oso...].

Can driverless cars handle a situation like lane diversion on expressways (two lanes blocked due to accident) ? [Yes. Technologically possible in the future].

Can driverless cars handle police road blockages and nagvigate through newly created obstacle paths ? No [Yes. Technologically possible in the future].

f1taxidriver SG

This world is progressing towards an economy driven by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Embrace it we must. Reject it we must not.

Already we have sex robots that can provide warmth (through batteries) and some speech.

Even our MDT technology has advanced. Rickshaw era no MDT. Then came the radio and walkie talkie.

Our humble Creative 99 PC is long gone. I used to own it. I still remember 20 yrs ago, there were shops in funan and peninsula and sim lim selling pirated software on 5.25" floppy disks. Now no more.

Not forgetting our police. Last time wear shorts and chase people with sticks. Now they wear long pants and learn how to take cover.

You worried about driverless cabs? What if robots started taking over the classrooms? What about the soldiers and police and fighter pilots being replaced by advanced robots in 20 years?

What if the day comes when geylang no longer needs thai or prc pros because the robot can do everything a girl can do on bed plus operate 24/7?

Fear is the path to the dark side.. Fear leads to anger.. Anger leads to hate.. Hate leads to suffering..

Remember the movie - The attack of the clones - from star wars. Mankind are already exploring other habitable earth-like planets. Whatever u see on the silver screen is a prophecy. It will all come true. The day will come when robot clones are used in space wars, not just wars on earth.

When this day comes, many many traditional jobs will go. Remember the dinosaur called T. rex? So big so strong so powerful. It went extinct because it cannot adapt to a changing planet.

Taxilim88 SG

My first hard disk drive was a Seagate ST-225 or something. Only 2MB capacity. lolololol...

Don't think too much about driverless taxis lah...with technology advancing, old economies like retail shops will go and along with it, millions of jobs. What's 55,000 taxi driver jobs?

Neutral-Thinker SG

My first hard disk drive was a Seagate ST-225 or something. Only 2MB capacity. lolololol...

Don't think too much about driverless taxis lah...with technology advancing, old economies like retail shops will go and along with it, millions of jobs. What's 55,000 taxi driver jobs?

Retail shops at HDB would not disappear because ordinary Singaporeans want retail shops to survive.

If everything is online, then we would be in trouble as everything is controlled by some people who could not handle viruses and backdoor bugs planted in OS.

When more jobs disappear, more would want to drive taxis.

The bottomline is those pushing for driverless taxis are unable to generate as many new good jobs for Singaporeans in Singapore.

If they are somehow able to generate equivalence amount of good jobs, it has to be shared with FTs which means more than 100,000 new good service sector (even more if you talk about Marine sector, construction sector or manufacturing sector) jobs need to be generated.

bowah SG

Driveless or any other new technology shall create it own value chain of jobs, eg driverless shall create programming jobs, driverless car repair jobs, driveless GPS pod maintenance and servicing jobs which are higher skill jobs that require higher knowledge and skill, and that is where upgrading and skilfuture come into the picture.

And with a diminishing of local population, that fit well into training our locals (the youngs one, not us hor, we lau kok kok liao, train smlj also no use) into the innovation economy that will outdate the 70s’ industrial and 90’s knowledge economy.

And with it, less manpower are required, and that fit into the reduction of foreign dependency. Robotics and automation is not new, you can see it changes and happening day by day. Just like you drive taxi today, from nets to ezlink to credit cards..and the next day you go ATM…you notice that you do not even need to face a human. And it is 24hrs, and you can also do internet banking transfer with just the tip of yr finger.

Finance industrial is one such industrial that is doing it, and you can see that they are retrenching thousands of ah nehs and foreign expat day by day, so if you wonder why today foreign ah neh are not so proud, because they are also under threat as banks go into internet banking and automation.

Uber is the world largest transport provider without even a car

Alibaba and it subsidiary taobao is the world biggest retail but do not own a single store and goods

ABN is the world biggest tour and hotel/residential booking, but do not even own a single room nor any tour agent.