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Areas with sprawl are best suited to car ownership. Dense urban areas are better suited to mass transit. Uber fills a niche of point to point transport that's
by chrischen 10y ago
Areas with sprawl are best suited to car ownership.
Dense urban areas are better suited to mass transit.
Uber fills a niche of point to point transport that's current overutilized because of VC subsidization.
Even if you get rid of the driver, you can't expect everyone in an urban core to do point to point transit, especially with the inefficiencies of pick up and drop off.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI agree.
- trestles 10y agoI know a LOT of people who prefer Uber to self-driving. Expect that to be an emergent behavior once the cost of the driver is subtracted.