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Somebody has to run those „computers in the cloud“. Government-appointed monopoly? Government itself? Which would be interesting, but there could be so many opp

• Jensson 4y ago
  The government can run postal services and has done that for centuries, I don't see why they couldn't run this as well. As soon as a reasonable matching algorithm matching driver and passenger is open to the public everyone could easily deploy this wherever they want. Governments aren't good at innovating, but they are great at keeping stable systems running.
  • dewey 4y ago
    I somehow have the feeling that trusting multiple smaller companies with the trip data is a lot better than having a central authority, which is also the government owning all that data in one place.
    • Jensson 4y ago
      Government already runs healthcare, public transit, the telephone net, post etc, what difference does this make? If they want your location data they already got it from your phones network connection. Alternatively they could just regulate the field and set a cap on how much the rideshare app provider can take, ensuring that drivers get most of it and the provider just gets enough to keep the service running. Lots of fields are regulated this way, the important part here is that automation profits shouldn't all end up at a few huge corporations but instead get distributed to the workers.
      • mantas 4y ago
        In many cases it's single-payer rather than government-run.
  • mantas 4y ago
    ... and other parcel companies run loops around oldschool postal services now. Coming up with a reasonable matching algorithm would be innovation too in a sense. I doubt current matching algorithms are optimised for anything but operator's profit.