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"In fact, he believes one day all the Uber cars on the road may be driving themselves." What piece of "cars driving themselves" does Uber have? Uber has an app
by medius 12y ago
"In fact, he believes one day all the Uber cars on the road may be driving themselves."
What piece of "cars driving themselves" does Uber have? Uber has an app. Google has self driving cars and they can also build an app. So he is basically describing Google's future, not Uber's.
- zevyoura 12y agoGoogle has a $250M investment in Uber.
- polarix 12y agoGoogle is not the only company investing in self-driving cars, so there will almost certainly be a market for purchasing them as well as merely renting. Uber has a proven customer base and elegant transition strategy. It should be an interesting competition, assuming Google doesn't buy Uber outright.
- baddox 12y agoOnce self-driving cars are available, Uber would be a major company deploying them (assuming Uber is still around and similarly positioned). They could either buy their own cars, or somehow allow private "drivers" to deploy their cars on the Uber network.
- krschultz 12y agoThat is certainly the thesis behind the wild valuation of Uber - but so far Uber hasn't really shown the ability to lock customers into its taxi network. Whoever develops the self driving cars can build the Uber app/network part of the system much more easily than Uber will be able to build the self driving car part of the system.
- pjc50 12y agoIt's not clear how you could lock someone into a taxi network - by definition, each taxi journey is a separate purchase, unaffected by previous decisions (once you've installed the app in the first place). Prepay discount mentioned above is about the only legitimate possibility. There are plenty of not-so-legitimate possibilities (see the Uber vs Lyft poaching discussion)
- TTPrograms 12y agoThey have a contract with Google: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/