On August 10th, 2023, the Public Utilities Commission granted Waymo and Cruise permission to begin offering paid rides in San Francisco - this was an important step in the right direction. Driverless Taxis Scale Up

We Welcome AI Companies to San Francisco!

VisionarySF strongly believes in Capitalism and supports endeavors that benefit our community, such as this. Not only do companies like Waymo and Cruise enrich themselves, but enrich the community a whole lot more. It’s projected that by 2025 Artificial Intelligence will begin adding anywhere from $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually into the global market - a significant portion of that being in San Francisco. Economic Benefits of AI
Per the recent article, an expert stated that it’s quite common to see a causal sequence through big moves like this. Once one heavy-hitting firm gets involved, dozens of others shortly follow, due to optimism in the market. San Francisco witnessed this in 2000 during the “.com” boom and experts are quite confident that this will be similar (and possibly the largest upswing of economic development that SF has ever seen).
(Also) In August 2023, it was reported that a premier AI firm will be leasing the entire former Slack Headquarters, this being a profound uplift to the SF economy. Premier AI Firm Joining the Ranks