Alex Roy

I would urge someone to open a book and read about aviation and the automobile and rail and everything else that's ever been deployed to get a sense of how good they are.

So I actually disagree with the labor, the job loss narrative completely.

The best analog would be elevators, which required human operators for the first 80 years.

Actually, it only required them probably for the first 30 years that they were deployed until the 19s, 100 years ago.

In 1946, there was a strike in New York City.

The elevator operators stopped going to work for a week.

The city shut down.

Within 25 years, we went from 100% human operation of elevators to 1%.

But the total number of people employed by the elevator industry is higher today than it was at peak elevator operator 100 years ago.

So this is ridiculous.

Every autonomous vehicle deployed is going to require people to support it.

And that business is in its infancy.

People also forget that Uber ride hail gigs as a job didn't exist 20 years ago.

And so we're going to see a massive job shift, but not an elimination.

Not so much all the new jobs.

So the financial burden on any country which has vehicles deployed at scale from crashes, you know, traffic, you know, just general disruption, insurance is enormous.

It's in and of itself.

billions and billions of dollars a lot of that's just going to go away which is fantastic and beyond that think about how much time and money is spent just moving people around who can't drive

or how much we have to invest in building transit systems at great costs that are often inefficient.

Now, I'm all for mass transit.