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That seems like an absurdly high number of employees for what's basically a taxi company, especially considering their drivers aren't employees. That's roughly
by astrodust 9y ago
That seems like an absurdly high number of employees for what's basically a taxi company, especially considering their drivers aren't employees.
That's roughly as many employees as Apple had in 2005, a company that was making laptops, desktops, servers, wireless routers, portable audio players, and entire operating systems.
- mrgordon 9y agoSelf driving cars and operations eat a lot of staff
- astrodust 9y agoIt's not even clear why self-driving is an important pursuit at this point for a company like Uber. They're going to blow through billions on this and someone else will come in with a solution that just works. I doubt a scrappy "startup" like Uber can beat companies like Toyota, Volkswagen, GM, Google or even Apple to market with a viable, certified self-driving car. They have, at best, a few billion left to dump into that venture. Those big companies could throw in ten times that if they wanted to. Maybe someone needs to disrupt Uber. Go Lyft!