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If it doesn't happen sometime soon, Uber and Lyft will go out of business. They need fully autonomous driving in order to achieve profitability. So Uber and Ly
by asaph 7y ago
If it doesn't happen sometime soon, Uber and Lyft will go out of business. They need fully autonomous driving in order to achieve profitability.
So Uber and Lyft either achieve self driving capabilities and get rid of the human drivers or go out of business and let the human drivers go. Either way human ride share drivers have no future. If anyone is looking at this occupation as anything other than temp work, they need a reality check.
- pkaye 7y agoIf full autonomous driving is achieved that I believe the Tesla approach seems it would be more successful. Car owners would send their cars out to drive customers around for money. Tesla would handle transactions and take a cut of the profit. Uber and Lyft don't need to be in this picture.
- usaar333 7y ago> They need fully autonomous driving in order to achieve profitability. Why is this inherently true? Taxi services were profitable and Uber/Lyft are better than they ever were. I don't see why Uber/Lyft raising fares a bit would lead to an entire market collapse.
- pkaye 7y agoWall Street profitability is different than taxi driver profitability. Uber/Lyft have many highly paid employees too. Most taxi services are probably just ramen profitable except in a few lucrative areas.
- ackbar03 7y agoAutonomous driving wasn't even part of their original business plan. They only relied on it once they came to realize they werent making money, The whole company's a shit show