“The human brain will always be the strongest tool. Can you imagine you're trying to hail down a vehicle with no driver in it?” says aspiring cabbie Steven Fairbrass. He believes autonomous vehicles won’t replace taxi drivers. Autonomous vehicles haven’t been approved to pick up passengers in London yet, but several companies are already trying out their cars here, including Wayve, a British startup backed by Nvidia and Microsoft, and Waymo, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet. “To me, human beings, drivers [are] always going to be needed. Always,” says Fairbrass. Another aspiring cabbie, Anshu Moorjani, isn't so sure. For him, the impact of AI on the profession is dubious. Over the last decade, the number of taxi drivers in London has fallen from 25,000 to 16,000. So has their income, as Uber and other ride-hailing companies have been cutting into their business. #robotaxi #ai #selfdrivingcar #cabbie