Re:‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travi...
by jon-wood on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:56AM
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Yes they are. They're a company which provides a car and driver to get from point A to point B on demand. That's a taxi company.
If you want someone competing with car ownership look at companies like Zipcar.
Re:‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travi...
by Tloewald on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:54AM
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By that token, taxi companies aren't taxi companies.
Uber is a taxi company. Actually it's a taxi middleman because it doesn't want to treat drivers as employees.
Re:‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travi...
by tessierashpool on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:02AM
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right, because nobody on here has read Zero To One, so nobody will recognize that "define yourself as a new category if your real category is highly regulated" game.
and because taxi companies don't already compete with car ownership.
sure.
EDIT: I knew if I won't make my point explicit it will be misread. I was referring to:
> Then, we'll see if they'll really survive as a taxi company.
They are building self-driving cars to create a logistic company. They have a limited interest in being a taxi company(in a classical sense), therefore they don't care much.