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Well once self-driving cars take over none of this will matter
by outlace 11y ago
Well once self-driving cars take over none of this will matter
- atwebb 11y agoIs there a "law" about people mentioning self-driving cars in anything even tangentially related to autos?
- darkstar999 11y agoCan you rephrase that? I'm not making sense of that question.
- tlrobinson 11y agoatwebb is observing that whenever there is any sort of discussion about automobiles on Hacker News someone inevitably brings up self-driving cars.
- ars 11y agoThere are people who think we should never fix or make any improvement to cars because self driving cars will make any improvement unnecessary.
- ars 11y agoAnd what's your plan for the next 30 years?
- vkou 11y agoUber will never be interested in taking on the capex of owning a full fleet of self-driving cars.
- intopieces 11y agoSure, but perhaps they'll do what Lyft has done: partner with a company that already owns a fleet of vehicles [0]. [0]http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/ride-hailing-company-lyft-partners-with-hertz-shell-to-gain-edge-over-uber.html http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/ride-hailing-company-lyft-par...
- univalent 11y agoI got a job offer at Uber ATC that was exactly that. Working on logistics for self driving cars. They have an enormous amount of money and they are throwing some of it at the problem. What use is an economy if so many people live in poverty?