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Why Uber’s human drivers aren’t out of a job just yet

Uber is racing to make autonomous cabs a reality, but public confidence about safety is stuck in the slow lane, says Uber driver Daniel Matthews

By Daniel Matthews

9 January 2017

An Uber car with the writing — Uber’s driverless cars have been on the roads in San Francisco
Angelo Merendino/AFP/Getty Images

Tech giant Uber’s experiments with autonomous cars have been making a stir. It has been field testing a technology no one is certain will work. In the process, it has expressed disdain for the capabilities of human drivers. Who can blame it? Crashes kill about . Some 90 per cent are . That’s a fact, and I write this as an Uber driver.

But when the company, best known for its app that …

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