Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X
by cvsh on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:54PM
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I've long thought the endgame of Uber is open-source software that continually automatically adjusts how much of the transaction it skims off so that it always has just enough to pay its own AWS bills.
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Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X
by tomcam on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:04AM
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Who would do dispute resolution, driver verification, and background checks? Who would get sued when a driver assaulted a passenger or vice versa?
Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X
by icebraining on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:53AM
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Just thinking aloud: Uber doesn't actually run driver verification and background checks, they hire other companies for that. In a more decentralized world, drivers would pay for that service themselves and get a digitally-signed certificate that they could upload to the software. Same for being sued: the driver would have to get insurance or escrow a certain lump sum (and upload proof too), so that if someone sued and won, the money could be used to pay for that.