[ExI] uber is doing what?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 5:30 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> OK so Uber bought a fleet of these things and started sending them to pick
> up passengers for hire in San Francisco.  This brings up a list of
> interesting questions.  It isn’t clear exactly, but as I interpret the news
> reports, Uber directs a self-driver with an actual human behind the wheel to
> pick up the passenger.  The operator perhaps needs no special skills, such
> as how to drive, since the car does that task.

Uber claims the humans were all engineers who knew how to drive.

The DMV claims it specifically told Uber "no" in advance, and has
evidence to back it up.

Yet again, Uber's true competitive advantage is shown to be a
willingness to flout the law and try to get away with it.