One of the reasons Uber is "losing" money is because they've made a huge bet on autonomous vehicles, buying the entire CMU robotics department, and Stanford, the winner of the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge isn't far from Uber's headquarters, either.

30 years ago was 1986; I don't know about you, but my Internet usage looked a lot different back then, and computing power was drastically different. Fully autonomous vehicles may still be a ways off, but imperfect partially autonomous is already here, with Tesla leading the the way for high-end consumers.