Robotaxis are officially cheaper than Uber

The Current powered by Kim Komando

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A Waymo costs $8. An Uber for the same ride? $17. The robotaxi price war is here, and it's changing everything. I break down who's winning, who's faking it (looking at you, Tesla), and why owning a car might soon feel like a gym membership you never use. Plus, your browser leaves fingerprints on every site you visit and a Pokémon card just sold for $13 million. Time to check that shoebox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.8	2026. So now Robotaxies are cheaper than Uber. Your browser is snitching on you even in private
0:50.5	mode, and a Pokemon card just sold for $13 million. And we are getting into all of it.
0:56.0	But first, trivia time.
0:57.7	How many data points can modern browser fingerprinting combine to uniquely identify you online?
1:03.1	No cookies needed?
1:04.4	Is it A, 5 to 10, B, 20 to 30, C, 50 to 100, or D, over 200?
1:13.2	Sit with that.
1:14.4	I'll give you the answer at the end, and trust me, it is going to change the way you think about private browsing forever.
1:21.6	All right, folks, the big story today, the Robotaxy Price War has officially officially started and the numbers are wild. A driverless
1:28.8	Waymo ride in San Francisco averages $8.17.17.25, more than double, for a car with an actual
1:39.0	person in it. I live in Phoenix most of the time and I see Waymos everywhere. At the grocery
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