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Uber needs to hit its timeline esp. with self-driving car very fast, they are for now branching into eats etc to buy some time. I used to think Uber is a slamdu

by sremani 10y ago

Uber needs to hit its timeline esp. with self-driving car very fast, they are for now branching into eats etc to buy some time. I used to think Uber is a slamdunk, but their humbling in China and India, showed that they need to protect Fortress America very bad and get Self-driving cars on the roads by turn of the decade. I am more long on AirBnB than Uber.

oblio 10y ago
I don't see how self-driving cars will be legal, let alone cost-effective for Uber by 2020. A cycle in the auto industry is 5-7 years and no amount of pixie dust will change that :)
kartan 10y ago
> get Self-driving cars on the roads by turn of the decade. It is not the same to create an app than to purchase and maintain a huge number of cars. That is a completely different business model. Isn't the article about how "sharing economy" is so good. Then why Uber wants to get rid of it so badly? AirBnB is more focused in its core business. The equivalent for them will be to create Hotels around the world. Hotel industry is a good one, but AirBnb doesn't has the business experience to work on that. And that's why they experiment on that in a less visible more realistic way (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-community-samara-yoshino-2016-8?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-com...).
- tim333 10y ago
  Also I see no reason to give Uber a high chance of being the first to develop level 4 autonomous cars. Google, Tesla and Volvo all seem ahead. And then why should they give the market to Uber rather than run their own taxis? Tesla are already talking about competing. ("Tesla says it will roll out Uber-style ride-hailing program "http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161020/COPY/310209846/tesla-says-it-will-roll-out-uber-style-ride-hailing-program http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161020/COPY/310209846/t... "No, you can't use your self-driving Tesla to make money through Uber" http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/tesla-ride-sharing-ban/#6Mklfcj1Ckq0 http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/tesla-ride-sharing-ban/#6Mklf... )

by sremani 10y ago

oblio 10y ago

I don't see how self-driving cars will be legal, let alone cost-effective for Uber by 2020. A cycle in the auto industry is 5-7 years and no amount of pixie dust will change that :)

kartan 10y ago

> get Self-driving cars on the roads by turn of the decade. It is not the same to create an app than to purchase and maintain a huge number of cars. That is a completely different business model. Isn't the article about how "sharing economy" is so good. Then why Uber wants to get rid of it so badly? AirBnB is more focused in its core business. The equivalent for them will be to create Hotels around the world. Hotel industry is a good one, but AirBnb doesn't has the business experience to work on that. And that's why they experiment on that in a less visible more realistic way (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-community-samara-yoshino-2016-8?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-com...).

tim333 10y ago
Also I see no reason to give Uber a high chance of being the first to develop level 4 autonomous cars. Google, Tesla and Volvo all seem ahead. And then why should they give the market to Uber rather than run their own taxis? Tesla are already talking about competing. ("Tesla says it will roll out Uber-style ride-hailing program "http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161020/COPY/310209846/tesla-says-it-will-roll-out-uber-style-ride-hailing-program http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161020/COPY/310209846/t... "No, you can't use your self-driving Tesla to make money through Uber" http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/tesla-ride-sharing-ban/#6Mklfcj1Ckq0 http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/tesla-ride-sharing-ban/#6Mklf... )