>The aren't as software-based as many people make them out to be. What does that even mean? Has Uber made a single physical product? To the best of my knowledg

>The aren't as software-based as many people make them out to be. What does that even mean? Has Uber made a single physical product? To the best of my knowledge they do not. Yes they may have to balance wages of drivers which is arguably not easy, nor is it easy to balance human labor(capital) costs in any industry. They are a marketplace for retail transportation. I agree that driverless cars could sink their ship if they're beaten to the market first. Self-driving cars are about many years away contingent on the legal system being the way it is today. That could change.The biggest problem to self-driving cars is insurance/liability ,the areas that they are going to be used, people's ability to change/adapt to them. What people don't understand is that the most population dense places, where uber and other ride handling services are predomimatly used, happens to have many pedestrians and the shittiest infrastructure. I think even talking about self driving cars is a gigantic waste of time , borderline buzzwordiness of 'machine learning' and 'artificial intelligence'. At least those buzz words are being used today. We are nowhere near a level 5 standards.