They are making all of the right moves. Assuming the Tesla chip is as they say it is - which is more believable because of their presentation and because of the lead engineer they brought on for it, and if we believe their expected improvements during the next chip version - along with the fleet of robotaxis and the Tesla Network taking 30-40% revenue share will on its own bankroll whatever issues they may have; I can't wait to see what happens to Uber, Lyft, and so on. I'm also concerned about potential vandalization (or worse attacks on users) who use these self-driving vehicle services by those who become disenfranchised, are struggling to survive, who currently try to support their living as taxi or Uber/Lyft drivers; what Andrew Yang is working towards solving with UBI for the losses coming from automation.
Unfortunately I think the people that will suffer most from mass-automation still don't believe that their job can be automated. Speaking to taxi drivers, to them it's a foreign concept sometimes spoke about briefly in the news that may or may not come around in 20 years when they're retired, so they don't need to worry. Yang's "Freedom dividend" won't be appealing to them until the day they're passed on the road by a car without a driver in the seat. The sad reality is, until that point the dividend is only "more free money to the lazy unemployed". Out of all the current candidates, if I were to pick one it would be Yang. Sadly I think as soon as the political flame train gets started, he'll be shot down very quickly.
