Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ...
by rockinghigh on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:45PM
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So you created a carpool forum. That's a great idea but the complexity is vastly less than a real-time platform to dispatch cars and with prices that evolve over time.
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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ...
by zigzigzag on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:18AM
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It was a real-time system, actually. It wasn't a forum: riders would appear and disappear on the fly as they entered routes, and it did overlap calculations. You just put in your start and end points and it'd match people with quite different start and end points if the trip fuzzily matched subsegments.