On Dec. 1, TikToker Julia Rose (@julia.whiteeee7) posted a video, which amassed over 128,600 views as of Tuesday, expressing that being a passenger in electric vehicles causes motion sickness. Riding in the back of an electric vehicle is a different type of car sickness omfg, reads the text overlay in a video of her in which she appears nauseous in the back of a moving vehicle. Are Self-Driving Vehicles More Likely To Cause Motion Sickness? The comments were quick to validate her statement, with many comments claiming that they also get particularly motion sick from self-driving vehicles such as Teslas.
There's something fundamentally American about the freedom to get in your car and drive. Driving is self-determination. The liberty to set your own course. The power to move under your own willpower, whether for duty or sheer pleasure. Despite some decline among Gen Zers, plenty of teens still eagerly anticipate getting their driver's license. In many American towns, where public transportation and walkability are scarce, driving is what empowers you to explore.
While speaking this month at a summit hosted by the "All-In" podcast, Khosrowshahi fielded a question about how Uber would handle ownership of the self-driving cars that it plans to add to its operations in the coming years. All-In posted a video of the conversation on Wednesday. "You're going to have financial owners that own big fleets of cars that are on our network," Khosrowshahi said. "All of these cars are going to be financeable," he said.
