Cambridge lecturer's decade-long poll: demand for 'Uber for personal security' near zero, now shifting
SamuelAlbanie · x · 2026-10-25
Samuel Albanie shares his informal decade-long dinner-table poll of female friends on whether they'd use an 'Uber for personal security' (AI & robots plus maybe a few humans). Demand was roughly zero for years.
This week he logged a second 'seems a bit weird, but maybe' response in a single year — an Overton window shift he jokingly calls statistically significant. His forecast stands: widespread adoption once it costs about the same as a taxi.
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