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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by placeybordeaux on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:00PM (#14296024)
I think that steps 2 and 4 are the biggest questions for me, but the details about keeping the cars running & clean are also good ones. Right now Uber can externalize the costs of a running clean car. Running their own fleet will mean that stuff like gas, maintenance, cleanliness, misc stuff that 5 star uber drivers do (free candy, water etc) will no longer be externalized and bore by their drivers.

P.S. did you mean bearish instead of bullish?

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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by aetherson on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:21PM (#14296178)
Nope. People who are more bullish about Uber than I rate their chance of being first-to-market with driverless car technology at higher than 10%, for example.
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