Responding to reports that Uber will add driverless options for its customers in London, David McMullen, GMB Senior Organiser, said:
With hundreds of thousands of people employed to drive every day, we need to be really careful with the roll out of driverless cars unless we are prepared to see unprecedented levels of social and economic disruption.
GMB has called on TfL and the Government to urgently take responsibility for developing a plan that protects drivers and holds operators accountable for the disruption that these services will ultimately cause.
Until a plan is put in place to manage this transition and support drivers, it is premature to move to 'driverless' services.
It’s vital that we consider the implications of this before it’s too late.
