Sun Xueling on opportunities for public transport workers in autonomous vehicle sector

The supply of autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be limited at the start. So there will be no displacement effect for taxi and private-hire vehicle drivers in the short term. Senior Minister of State for Transport Sun Xueling, who gave this assurance in reply to MPs' questions in parliament on Thursday (Sep 25), said training and reskilling programmes will be rolled out to help drivers take on opportunities in the AV sector or to move on to other sectors. These programmes will be put in place early to give them options and time for reskilling, she added.