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Re:Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Dra... by deepVoid on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:57PM (#19175939)
I would not call it comfortable since both are bleeding money every year. In addition, Waymo, Cruise etc. are all trying hard to put robot taxi's on the road. When that day comes, it will be interesting.
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Re:Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Dra... by jacques_chester on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:15AM (#19178631)
I suspect car companies will move in at that point to disintermediate the ride companies, possibly spinning up subsidiaries using fleet purchasing to get around their dealership networks.

It's just as easy to rent a self-driving Camry from Toyota.

Oh and then there's the thing where Google and Apple and probably a hundred startup hopefuls scraping APIs will try to disintermediate them at the device.

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Re:Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Dra... by erikpukinskis on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:12PM (#19179582)
Waymo has robot taxis on the road already.
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