AMNY: Transportation experts push for more data before New York gets autonomous vehicles

AMNY: Transportation experts push for more data before New York gets autonomous vehicles
Dinara Zhanpeissova, a for-hire vehicle driver and Independent Drivers Guild organizer discussed the future of autonomous vehicles in New York at a recent panel discussion hosted by New York Law School.
Zhanpeissova stressed that any robotaxi legislation should come with an education program that would allow taxi drivers transition to other careers.
“A lot of drivers are immigrants, and it’s going to be very hard … if, let’s say, they don’t have a job anymore. I don’t know where they’re gonna go,” she said.