The robots arrive, and human drivers take a 6.9% pay cut.
San Francisco tells a story: Waymo scales to 800 vehicles, driver earnings drop nearly 7%. Los Angeles down 4.7%. Austin down 5.3%. Phoenix down 3.8%.
Meanwhile, nationwide driver pay inched up 1%.
This isn’t theory anymore. It’s showing up in pay packets. Gridwise data shows that when autonomous fleets hit critical mass in a city, the economics shift fast.
Platforms slash incentives because #MachineLearning never sleeps, never calls in sick, works 24/7.
Waymo operates 2,000 #AI-driven vehicles across these cities today. They’re targeting a million rides weekly by next year.
Do the maths on driver income when that happens.
We count the robots easily - 2,000 and climbing. Harder to count: the drivers quietly leaving.
