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spending piles of money developing self-driving and managing a large fleet of automated cars is kind of antithetical to the way uber operates anyway
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
spending piles of money developing self-driving and managing a large fleet of automated cars is kind of antithetical to the way uber operates anyway
- afavour 5y agoIt was explicitly their goal back in the day. Paid drivers were seen as a stepping stone.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoand it didn't make sense to me then either! They'd have to build out massive fleets of cars and technicians... at the moment they're really just managing contractors and do simple background checks and car inspections... much less overhead than maintaining a fleet.