redbrickroad

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   by redbrickroad 8y ago

   > The big wild card, though, is whether Uber or Lyft buy Lime or Bird. Uber is talking to both companies about an acquisition so this is not just a hypothetical question. Why would Uber buy either of these companies? Uber already has JUM
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   by redbrickroad 8y ago

   Factor in the cost of gas and you're in the negative already.
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   by redbrickroad 8y ago

   What makes you say that? Computers drive a self-driving car, and they've been at scale for a long time. It might require moving to the Tesla camera-only approach to bring down costs enough to make self-driving cars viable. But that tec
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   by redbrickroad 8y ago

   At the current cost of a self-driving car (~$250K), it would be ridiculously expensive to build a fully self-driving ride-sharing fleet [1]. So expensive that I doubt it's possible to make real money that way right now. Self-driving ca
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   by redbrickroad 8y ago

   At the current cost of a self-driving car (~$250K), it would be ridiculously expensive to build a fully self-driving ride-sharing fleet [1]. So expensive that I doubt it's possible to make real money that way right now. Self-driving ca