London IS OURS, not Big Tech'S. Big Tech corporations want to take over London with driverless cars - without any care for the 100,000s of jobs it will destroy.
London’s streets belong to the people who live and work here — not to the tech giants looking to turn our city into their next experiment.
We, as drivers and residents of London, demand Sadiq Khan and TfL put Londoners before tech billionaires looking for a profit by STOPPING the rollout of driverless cars on our streets.
Bosses are replacing human workers with AI across industries and you might be next on the chopping block. Help us take this chance to draw the line, because who does this benefit?
National Government is pushing autonomous vehicles onto our streets at breakneck speed to serve the interests of tech billionaires and profit over people. They want to start with London but then this will be rolled out all over. But Sadiq Khan and Andy Lord have the power to say no.
Londoners should set the rules for the city we live in: we are rightfully concerned about safety, worsening congestion and massive job losses.
Zohran Mamdani, the Mayor of New York City, stopped the rollout of driverless cars.
We're counting on Sadiq Khan to have our backs and not hand over our roads to tech billionaires at the expense of tens of thousands of drivers and their families.
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These companies will take private hire drivers' jobs and the companies don’t care. The companies are actively preparing for private hire drivers to lose their jobs and building it into their long term projections. Uber has committed to investing £10 billion in driverless cars yet drivers are not being paid minimum wage after costs often. There are 300,000 drivers working in the UK and 100,000 of them work in London - many of them supporting families. Who do driverless cars stand to benefit except the super rich? We must stand with drivers who could lose their jobs all because a tech billionaire wants to make more money and have even more control over our lives.
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It’s a total privatisation of our public transport system for tech profit: Roads are a public good, mattering because they are the lifeblood of society, taking people and goods where they need to be. Public transport is run by Transport for London and aims generally to meet the needs of residents of London, whereas these companies only aim is profit. We need more of the transport system to be run for people, not for profit!
The Mayor’s Transport Strategy lays out targets to
- reduce congestion
- cut down on cars
- and increase public transport use.
The latest report from the London Assembly makes clear that the proposed rollout of driverless cars threatens to set us back on every one of those targets and concluded that ‘it had not heard enough evidence to be convinced the capital should welcome driverless cars.’
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Driverless cars have had a cacophony of failings that has gravely endangered and killed people.Autonomous vehicle technology has experienced countless high-profile failures, including the tragic death of Elaine Herzberg. There is also "clear pattern" of driverless vehicles interfering with emergency response operations and they have been notorious for not responding well to school busesm such that a nine year old girl was hit by one car, Waymo was investigated by US's main transportation safety regulator and the company had to recall nearly 4000 cars. Waymo vehicles are dangerous.
They are even stopping people getting a good night’s sleep: These vehicles are untested pests. This isn’t good enough. Human lives and our city are more important than these businesses' profit margins so they shouldn’t be on our streets. The people of London deserve to be safe. -
They’re bad for congestion. Rather than be integrated within the wider transport system like private hire drivers, driverless car companies will flood the streets with vehicles and directly compete with it. They will undercut public transport and rapidly shape the infrastructure of our city.
The latest report from the London Assembly makes clear that the proposed rollout of driverless cars threatens to set us back on every one of those targets and concluded that ‘it had not heard enough evidence to be convinced the capital should welcome driverless cars.’