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Re:Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules by tmh79 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:53PM (#14321309)
Its complicated from ubers perspective though. Their product is "transportation as reliable as running water". How long until autonomy becomes that reliable?

Thinking specifically about: Weather, Supply shocks (morning/evening rush hour, concerts, professional sports games, parades)

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Re:Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules by amluto on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:51AM (#14321525)
> Their product is "transportation as reliable as running water".

Running water is very reliable. AWS can't keep a reliability zone working that reliably, and that's a rather easier problem than transportation.

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Re:Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules by icebraining on Friday May 12, 2017 @02:28AM (#14321844)
Thing is, they don't have to rely 100% on autonomy. They can start introducing autonomous cars, in competition with human drivers, and adjust that number dynamically on an hourly basis. With the higher profits of those rides, they could even pay the human drivers more during those "supply shocks", as a kind of self-funded surge pricing, to fill up those gaps.
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