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Re:The frustration and quasi freedom of being an Uber driver by ilaksh on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:49PM (#18332358)
What will happen to drivers when self-driving cars roll out?

In the meantime there is a long shot of a way to improve this type of thing. Which is to replace proprietary centralized platforms like Uber with open decentralized platforms that would allow multiple providers to share a common market and infrastructure and still compete. That would give drivers the ability to choose the nicer company but still have the large market.

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Re:The frustration and quasi freedom of being an Uber driver by raverbashing on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:13PM (#18332516)
Self-driving cars is Uber's end game
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Re:The frustration and quasi freedom of being an Uber driver by toomuchtodo on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:38PM (#18332673)
Uber will exhaust its financing before self-driving cars arrive.
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Re:The frustration and quasi freedom of being an Uber driver by village-idiot on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:26AM (#18335829)
Depends on the market.

For the pedestrian heavy cities with inclement weather (New York, Chicago), you are probably right. For the car-heavy cities that never rain or snow (LA, Phoenix), they’ll probably make it.

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Re:The frustration and quasi freedom of being an Uber driver by Skunkleton on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:00PM (#18332803)
Or they will get beaten to the punch by a competitor (probably Waymo), and they will become even more economically unsustainable.
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