Out of the box Driverless taxis
Driverless taxis have been operated by Waymo and Cruise in San Francisco for some time. They are not working well. See this report:
https://www.marketwatch.com/.../driverless-cars-are...

Elon Musk of Tesla wants to build a robo-taxi fleet using their full self driving (FSD) software. It will face the same challenge.

I expect that FSD will be used, but a human driver will still be required.
Anyway, I have two solutions to this problem. I will tell Elon Musk.

a) If the driverless taxi is blocking traffic, it should decide to "get out of the way". If not, the control room can send a signal to the taxi. 

b) I prefer the driverless taxis to be used for designated routes, that are pre-set in advance. This should cover most of the requests from commuters. It may not cover some requests (e.g. out of the way points), but it will avoid the unknown situations. 

I hope Elon Musk likes these two simple ideas.

Tan Kin Lian

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