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Re:Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for... by code_duck on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:31PM (#17343373)
Won't there be some point at which they're established and don't need to work so hard at those things?
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Re:Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for... by smt88 on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:53PM (#17343468)
Probably not. Riders and drivers are both primarily price-driven. They have little or no brand loyalty. It's a low-margin, race-to-the-bottom type of business.

L5 self-driving cars will be a game-changer for a while, assuming Uber gets exclusivity from Waymo (which now owns a stake in Uber).

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Re:Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for... by code_duck on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:05AM (#17346697)
It seems to me that they are very well known at this point, and don't have significant competition. I don't see why they would be spending so much money for marketing... maybe in the past, maybe in the future. I must not understand the market.

I'm sure there's plenty of analysis of this out there, so I should read some articles.

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