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Self-driving cars never made any sense as part of Uber's business model. What were they going to do, buy a fleet of vehicles, build garages, hire mechanics? The

• ineedasername 9y ago
  Maybe they thought they'd franchise out the tech, lease and loan terms the way they do for their cars now? It's a good point, I dont know what they were thinking, if anything aside from "that'll sort itself out when the time comes"
• CydeWeys 9y ago
  Why not? Google started out as a software company and now has plenty of different hardware lines.
• gpm 9y ago
  It's not like you drive millions of miles without a small fleet of vehicle. Not only is that what they would do on large scale, it's what they already started to do on small scale. Uber's a company whose current main product is software, that doesn't mean they can't branch out into new things and are forever tied to software. I'd also argue that Uber already has a lot more experience with working with a million different people than most other companies (currently drivers, in the future possibly mechanics, garage owners, etc).