How well do you think the streets of Sydney would handle self-driving taxis? What about those same self-driving taxis navigating the Melbourne tram lines? Could you imagine it? Waymo is set to launch self-driving taxis and Ubers in Australia soon after talks with Transport NSW, and not everyone is happy with it.

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GUESTS:

Dr Erica Mealy, senior lecturer in computer science at the University of the Sunshine Coast
Professor Michael Cowling, lecturer and Director of the Apple Platform Hub for Innovation at RMIT

This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land, in Meanjin and in Naarm.

Self-driving taxis could be coming to Australia, but are we ready?