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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by radiorental on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:27PM (#14296795)
I don't understand what you 'mean at that price'

As for scale? There very much is efficiencies to be gained in becoming a true mass transit system.

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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by Marazan on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:22AM (#14298474)
But that means Uber takes on all the things that they currently offload on the drivers (car ownership, maintenance, etc).

By 'at that price's I mean Uber have currently lost 15 billion dollars subsidising taxi fares. They cannot sustain that.

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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by radiorental on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:40AM (#14299858)
I agree they can't sustain that. Without insight into their roadmap we can only speculate.

To the point of Uber maintaining driverless cars. What's to stop them going to a franchise model. Uhaul-like hubs where the cars go to get charged, cleaned etc?

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