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I don't believe self driving cars will be practical in the next 10 years. Not at the level Uber would benefit. I don't understand why self driving cars are go

by nemo44x 11y ago

I don't believe self driving cars will be practical in the next 10 years. Not at the level Uber would benefit. I don't understand why self driving cars are good for Uber. Uber is successful right now due to he network effect of their drivers. Once self driving cars are a reality you will see numerous offers for this service with all of them racing to the bottom. Bigger fish like Apple and Google would be able to siege them and starve them out as pricing races to the bottom. Uber is valuable because of their drivers, not despite their drivers. In the age of self driving cars - Uber won't be able to compete.

deckar01 11y ago
The data Uber is collecting from their app will be very valuable once they start using self driving cars. Google may have a lot more data coming in from Maps, but it is noisy and unfiltered. Uber has a geospatial history of every ride along with the metadata needed to make it truly useful.
- rodgerd 11y ago
  > Google may have a lot more data coming in from Maps, but it is noisy and unfiltered. Because if there's one thing we know about Google it's that they're terrible at slicing and dicing large volumes of data.