"Uber is a technology company" reads the legal disclaimer on the ride-hailing-app company's website, a claim that is as defensive as it is aspirational. Right now, Uber has so many driver-partners (as the company prefers to term them) that "more people earn a paycheck--or part of one--from Uber than from any other private employer in the world except for Wal-Mart and McDonald's," according to Forbes. That's 1.5 million drivers, a truly massive number of humans that Uber very openly plans to replace with robots.

But apparently Uber's robots drive like jerks, according to California regulators who have called for the company to stop carrying customers in self-driving cars. When Uber rolled out its self-driving Volvo SUVs in California, it did so without the necessary permits. And then Uber's self-driving cars ran red lights, and were recorded doing so.