A million job losses: Brace for Britain’s driverless car revolution

While job destruction sounds damaging, self-driving cars may create economic benefits elsewhere. Most commuters – 67pc – travel by car. Their journeys take an average of almost half an hour.If nobody were to drive any more, the future would look bleak for the nation’s 29,000 driving instructors too.Khosrowshahi expects a large share of those jobs to be lost. “Obviously, there will be job displacement,” he said.Around 280,000 drive heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), according to the Office for National Statistics, ...