I haven’t followed the European market too closely, but I think it will be tough to get to a wide scale deployment of even 1 to 200,000 trips per week like we’re seeing with Waymo in California or Apollo Go in China any time soon due to all the normal headwinds but also the pro labor movement. Europe has always been a very pro labor region and Uber really did and continues to struggle to break into a lot of markets there Because of this. Incumbent taxis really stalled their expansion for 3-6 years.
I think robotaxis will face even stronger opposition.
What role is reserved to Europe in the driverless car industry? As a strategic technology, could they compete in short or mid term with US or China?
I haven’t followed the European market too closely, but I think it will be tough to get to a wide scale deployment of even 1 to 200,000 trips per week like we’re seeing with Waymo in California or Apollo Go in China any time soon due to all the normal headwinds but also the pro labor movement. Europe has always been a very pro labor region and Uber really did and continues to struggle to break into a lot of markets there Because of this. Incumbent taxis really stalled their expansion for 3-6 years.
I think robotaxis will face even stronger opposition.