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What is the reason ride hailing apps could not adopt a cooperative driver-owned model? That's what taxis are, at least in Spain. Yes there are license renters
by narag 7y ago
What is the reason ride hailing apps could not adopt a cooperative driver-owned model?
That's what taxis are, at least in Spain. Yes there are license renters that hoard many licenses, but most are individuals, that sometimes associate to share services like call centers or apps.
Someone here told me time ago that the service is not straightforward to replicate technically at all.
- mimixco 7y agoUber's app service? As far as apps go, it's very simple.
- narag 7y agoI've tried and failed to find the original comment. There were something about non-obvious matching algorithm and infrastructure needed. I can't see it either...
- mimixco 7y agoYou don't need a CS degree to see that it's simple. The Uber app has only a few basic functions: Get the user's GPS location. Get the GPS locations of nearby cars. Pick the closest car. Collect payment. Send a dispatch message to the driver. That's all there is to it!
- bitrevolution 7y agoI believe the medallion/license models is no longer viable and largely a beuraucratic, obsolete, monopolistic form of rent seeking. And Uber has largely proven this. I am more interested in the technical and financial feasibility of replicating an employee owned ondemand marketplace such as Uber and more generally any service that provides limited efficiency to the end user at an unreasonably high cost to the supplier.
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- narag 7y agoI deleted a previous response, now I understand better what you meant. In my humble opinion, it doesn't work. Cooperatives tend to bureaucratic, obsolete, monopolistic forms of rent seeking and then comes some uber and eat them. But that's just like my opinion, really.