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Autonomous vehicle deployment at commercial scale removes a paid driver from every trip.
That labor substitution is now the fault line between Uber and Waymo, with a key battle over mass AV deployment playing out in Washington, D.C.
A political dimension to the split The two companies' disagreement has moved into regulatory and labor territory. Washington, the nation's capital, is where the labor dimension is currently being waged.
The specific contest is over the terms under which autonomous fleets can expand commercially, with workforce displacement at the center.
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