Taxis in crisis

[taxi1990]

Elon musk is full of $hit, don't be listening to any of the crap he spouts, he said we would have level 5 autonomous driving by 2020.

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/sorry-elon-fully-autonomous-tesla-vehicles-will-not-happen-anytime-soon

https://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-fully-autonomous-vehicles-future-prediction-timeline-2019-8?r=US&IR=T

https://www.thetelegram.com/wheels/why-your-dream-of-driving-an-autonomous-car-is-still-decades-away-390259/


even people in charge of autonomous driving for different car companies agree its decades away.

It may eventually put some of us out of a job but you cant fight it either, from the minute i started in the business I was planning my next one, we are all entrepreneurs and capable of running other businesses so we shouldnt keep all our eggs in 1 basket. think about it, if we all had another business and level 5 autonomous cars put us out of a job tomorrow, we wouldn't be that bothered as we would have the other business/businesses to fall back on.

[Cool Boola]

About sums it up...."what do we want.....and when do we want it?"

What do we want?
A CURE FOR TOURETTES!
When do we want it?

What DO..we want ?
  Dempsey outh
When do we want ith
   NOW
We goth
 it but I dont condone throwing shit at his office window to get!

Ffffs sake























CUNT!

[Cool Boola]

Reverse that....that word condone is a tricky one...seems to have many contrasting meanings...
FFS....disregard or overlook the post if you find it objectionable or the like...Eamon

[mercenary for hire]

Elon musk is full of $hit, don't be listening to any of the crap he spouts, he said we would have level 5 autonomous driving by 2020.

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/sorry-elon-fully-autonomous-tesla-vehicles-will-not-happen-anytime-soon

https://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-fully-autonomous-vehicles-future-prediction-timeline-2019-8?r=US&IR=T

https://www.thetelegram.com/wheels/why-your-dream-of-driving-an-autonomous-car-is-still-decades-away-390259/


even people in charge of autonomous driving for different car companies agree its decades away.

It may eventually put some of us out of a job but you cant fight it either, from the minute i started in the business I was planning my next one, we are all entrepreneurs and capable of running other businesses so we shouldnt keep all our eggs in 1 basket. think about it, if we all had another business and level 5 autonomous cars put us out of a job tomorrow, we wouldn't be that bothered as we would have the other business/businesses to fall back on.

Why would I want another business.I've enough work to avoid as it is.Let us know when you build a rocket that can go into space and land on it's own when it comes back.

Taxi drivers are usually the ones full of shit from my experience.Tell us about all the successful business you operate?I'm genuinely curious.

[mercenary for hire]

I'm not concerned about my job as I don't really turn up as it is for work. People will buy the autonomous cars as gadgets. Taxi use is another matter altogether.

[taxi1990]

Elon musk is full of $hit, don't be listening to any of the crap he spouts, he said we would have level 5 autonomous driving by 2020.

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/sorry-elon-fully-autonomous-tesla-vehicles-will-not-happen-anytime-soon

https://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-fully-autonomous-vehicles-future-prediction-timeline-2019-8?r=US&IR=T

https://www.thetelegram.com/wheels/why-your-dream-of-driving-an-autonomous-car-is-still-decades-away-390259/


even people in charge of autonomous driving for different car companies agree its decades away.

It may eventually put some of us out of a job but you cant fight it either, from the minute i started in the business I was planning my next one, we are all entrepreneurs and capable of running other businesses so we shouldnt keep all our eggs in 1 basket. think about it, if we all had another business and level 5 autonomous cars put us out of a job tomorrow, we wouldn't be that bothered as we would have the other business/businesses to fall back on.

Why would I want another business.I've enough work to avoid as it is.Let us know when you build a rocket that can go into space and land on it's own when it comes back.

Taxi drivers are usually the ones full of shit from my experience.Tell us about all the successful business you operate?I'm genuinely curious.

Not sure why you have replied in an aggressive cynical tone, im just trying to give a little advice to my fellow taxi drivers.

That is ok if you don't like working but we are all different, I love working and am very ambitious, I knew all about rideshare and autonomous cars before i started the business, i brought a lorry driver home one night, he was worried about a robot taking his job and asked me was i not. The way I feel about it is why dwell on things like that, just get the head down, work hard and have your eye on other opportunities.

I have plans for another couple of businesses one of which i will start in the next year hopefully, I needed to save a certain amount of money the last few years in order to start it, i have enough now. people laughed at me when i started the taxi business and told me not to bother but i never listen to anyone when it comes to things like this. you can do anything you put your mind to. I do believe that a lot of taxi drivers are clever people who can transfer the skills they have to other businesses.

[Theoneandonly]

Most are trying to come up with a business idea that pays us while we're horizontal, that's why the PUP payment has proven very popular amongst taxi drivers.
In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get, we get paid for the part of the day everyone else does for nothing ...commuting to and from a real job.
Prior to Taxi driving I was a sales rep, I drove 200 miles a day no problem, unfortunately that wasn't the bit I got paid for, the real work was far more taxing.

[taxi1990]

Most are trying to come up with a business idea that pays us while we're horizontal, that's why the PUP payment has proven very popular amongst taxi drivers.
In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get, we get paid for the part of the day everyone else does for nothing ...commuting to and from a real job.
Prior to Taxi driving I was a sales rep, I drove 200 miles a day no problem, unfortunately that wasn't the bit I got paid for, the real work was far more taxing.

Most of us hate working for someone else so id say continuing to be self employed is the only option for a lot of us.

Taxi driving is handy enough most of the time but its hard going if you work a lot, 7 days a week, day and night, nights can be good craic but they can be hell also, putting up with aggressive customers, and cleaning up sick after the nights work. its not the driving aspect of the job I think is transferable, its all the other stuff that goes with running any business.

[Bob Shillin]

"In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get".

Occasionally you do say some foolish things, more so recently. Making a family rearing, mortgage qualifying, income from taxiing is as soul destroying, marriage wrecking as it gets.

Getting paid for doing very little is usually the domain of low paid, lower level state, or local government, employees, or alternatively very rich men.

[Theoneandonly]

"In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get".

Occasionally you do say some foolish things, more so recently. Making a family rearing, mortgage qualifying, income from taxiing is as soul destroying, marriage wrecking as it gets.

Getting paid for doing very little is usually the domain of low paid, lower level state, or local government, employees, or alternatively very rich men.

Only occasionally ... thanks!

[Hugh Jenob]

Fair play to Boyd-Barrett. AGAIN.  The only one who dares utter that four letter word in public, beginning with T and ending with I, when it comes to giving us some sort of backing.....

   

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[Taxi driver42]

Yes we are in trouble
But 350 a week wont solve it

[Panel]

"In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get".

Occasionally you do say some foolish things, more so recently. Making a family rearing, mortgage qualifying, income from taxiing is as soul destroying, marriage wrecking as it gets.

Getting paid for doing very little is usually the domain of low paid, lower level state, or local government, employees, or alternatively very rich men.

For a middle class family man it was enough, don’t know when it changed, couldn’t comment on such as I’m neither middle class nor a family man.

[Cool Boola]

The reality is that a taxidriver is a low skilled job.I remember a courier in my cab...telling me back in the zeros that we should only be getting 10  euro P H ..max for self employed and 5 e for renters.

[Bob Shillin]

"In fairness Taxi driving is about as  close to doing nothing as you're going to get".

Occasionally you do say some foolish things, more so recently. Making a family rearing, mortgage qualifying, income from taxiing is as soul destroying, marriage wrecking as it gets.

Getting paid for doing very little is usually the domain of low paid, lower level state, or local government, employees, or alternatively very rich men.

For a middle class family man it was enough, don’t know when it changed, couldn’t comment on such as I’m neither middle class nor a family man.

A guard used to be able to buy a house on his own income, now with a working nurse for a wife they may JUST afford one.