So a Chinese company gets an improved private streetview, and we have do with the American streetview? That’s just great Europe.

Hot take: these robotaxis fix nothing. They are just promising to be cheaper taxis. And once they have a monopoly, of course the prices are going to rise again. These things aren’t the solution. Better bus service on the countryside would be. Have one bus going in small circles inside a bigger village with, let’s say, 3000 inhabitants. Then, from the village centre, a bus is constantly driving between the village and the next district capital. This ensures laps are small and therefore need way less vehicles while still having a humane interval. It doesn’t even have to be “real” buses, it could be Mercedes Euro Sprinters with more seats in them, which is totally sufficient for the countryside. No one needs 300 to 500 thousand setra or Mercedes buses for a small village. Point is with this, jobs would return to the countryside. Because at least where I’m from, the countryside’s dying. Because who the hell wants to live in a dump that has nothing? And even if you have just a headache, you’re essentially under house arrest.