Lyft COO Jon McNeill said that self-driving cars will require 20 times more maintenance than traditional vehicles, so demand for mechanics will go up.
Graham Rapier / Business Insider's chief operating officer, Jon McNeill, has blunt advice for drivers worried about being replaced by autonomous robo-taxis: become a mechanic.
Last week, drivers around the world protested Uber and Lyft's stock market debuts amid what they see as falling pay.'s head of operations has an interesting new metaphor for the ride-hailing drivers that power the company's service. "Something happened when software would allow long-distance calls and that was you could dial an 800 number, but you needed somebody on the other end of those calls," McNeill continued."So overnight, hundreds of thousands of operator jobs were replaced literally with millions of call center jobs."
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