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Uber will be in a great spot if they are thinking about integrating the technology with self-driving cars. That's how the landscape will most likely look in 5-1
by washedup 12y ago
Uber will be in a great spot if they are thinking about integrating the technology with self-driving cars. That's how the landscape will most likely look in 5-10 years. Uber + Car Sharing + Driverless cars.
- mark-r 12y agoI think your time line for driverless cars is unrealistically short. It will be a very long time before we trust the technology enough to allow a car where there's no driver to take over in an unanticipated event.
- CPLX 12y agoAnd even longer still before it's economically more rational to do so, versus paying one of the many low skilled workers handling the job now.
- minthd 12y agoThere was a study that used Google's self driving car costs, and claimed that cost per mile is much cheaper than taxi's.
- rhino369 12y agoIf we had cheap self driving cars, it would be immediately economical. Those cheap low skilled workers are still taking 80% of the revenue.
- dougabug 12y agoThe Uber drivers are paying for the cost of the car, gas, maintenance, parking/garage, most of the insurance, etc. plus supplying the labor, while Uber takes probably around 80% of the profit. Getting rid of the driver means that Uber would have to spend ~$50B to put a million self driving cars on the road, which would immediately start depreciating. Plus it will need thousands of well situated facilities necessary to garage, maintain, and dispatch them.
- CPLX 12y agoYes and if we had an immovable object it would be immovable.
- nerfhammer 12y agoIt's going to be a while before these cars will be able to handle snow or ice
- washedup 12y agoYeah, I agree with you. 10 years does not seem long enough!