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Uber is on top of a death spiral with covid, the kill lift strategy by being unprofitable not working, softbank... From the engineering point of view Uber is d

by wolco 6y ago

Uber is on top of a death spiral with covid, the kill lift strategy by being unprofitable not working, softbank... From the engineering point of view Uber is done. The self driving automation is probably not possible in the next x years. It has a working successful product probably too many developers now working on non-core projects. Moving it to India they can keep the same numbers employed reduce costs and probably throw away things created there anyways. My guess is a key lean operations team will remain in sf. Ensuring the system runs and is updated. Self driving research can be done India.. UI screens will be local.

ghaff 6y ago
>Self driving research can be done India.. Or just not done. There's no reason for Uber to be working on self-driving at this point. Door to door fully autonomous driving in relatively dense areas--i.e. where it makes sense for Uber to operate--is decades away. Autonomous highway driving--which will probably arrive earlier (maybe much earlier)--does absolutely nothing for a would-be automated taxi service.