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Is there a reason to believe that Uber will be able to beat a Toyotas On Demand service that Toyota will inevitably launch? Seems to me that the manufacturers
by nerfhammer 10y ago
Is there a reason to believe that Uber will be able to beat a Toyotas On Demand service that Toyota will inevitably launch?
Seems to me that the manufacturers will always be able to undercut on price once cars are fully self-driving, eliminating the value of the driver network.
- dasil003 10y agoConsidering Toyota's publicized software problems with relatively simple embedded systems, I wouldn't be surprised if they are culturally unable to field a competitive on-demand driving service at all.
- ghaff 10y ago>culturally unable to field a competitive on-demand driving service Or, they could easily decide that that's not their business model. Being a car manufacturer is different from being a fleet operator is different from being a finance company is different from (for that matter) being a car sales and service organization. A company may decide to do one or more of those connected things and they frequently do in ways that are more direct or less direct. Culture's part of it. But it's also about focusing on capital requirements, core competency, etc.