The autonomous vehicle sector was rocked this week when Lucid Group ( LCID) announced a three-way partnership with Uber Technologies ( NYSE: UBER) and privately held Nuro to deploy at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with Nuro's L4 autonomous technology on the Uber (NYSE: UBER) network over the next six years.

Uber's robotaxi deal with Lucid and Nuro isn't worrying gig worker drivers. Here's why they don't think driverless cars will replace humans.