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electric robotaxis can help reduce co2 emissions and decrease the total amount of cars. This is good.
Looks more like the number of cars will stay the same-ish, but now there won't be a taxi driver making a living of it.
Wrong. The problem right now is low utilisation of cars. Most cars just sit around 90-95% of the day. A robotaxi would have much higher utilisation, therefore fewer cars are needed overall.
You could call this "hope".
Or "wet dream".
Are you familiar with the concept of a taxi? Do you really think a taxi does not make more trips per day than a privately owned car?
I think that this depends heavily on the success of that enterprise.
I am pretty sure that they start (when / if they start) with a very high number of vehicles in a city.