"Robotaxis are still cars and cars are a uniquely inefficient means of moving large numbers of people when space is at a premium."

As I am, David Zipper is baffled by why Europe would ever entertain allowing Waymo et. al. into dense cities with space-constrained historic cores.

https://www.ft.com/content/781c88b6-ec6a-4eda-8963-654391aa914c?accessToken=zwAGR74s4d0wkc94HIi27GpO2tOJY2VDkaqRTA.MEYCIQCe9tPJfjQadbNcDEqGM-LigxRDcYj3jT-9yC1xqAa_MAIhALSI3YEutb_SMJRkvKzbvu6ruhn6o6hLqDSwTeLMRDWE&sharetype=gift&token=14256e23-0255-4de7-8f35-696af5b854c2

This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/