My Father Spent 4 Years Memorizing London’s Streets. A Robot Just Made It All Worthless.
The London black cab driver’s four-year mastery of The Knowledge is being erased by Waymo’s algorithms. This isn’t just about transportation — it’s a microcosm of how we blindly trade human expertise, culture, and heritage for sterile efficiency. The cabbies are the canaries in the coal mine of automation, and their story is a warning for every profession that thinks it’s safe.