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Re:End of the Line for Uber by supernovae on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:21AM (#28198433)
If I was the CEO, instead of thinking i could pull off self-driving cars, I would have gone with some lease/buy/discount program with Tesla and Model 3s - incentivizing an electric fleet as much as possible.

I would have boosted the charging station capacity or invested in quick charger convenience areas.

I would have also invested in partnering quick quickbooks, to have accounting/expense tracking built in or stupid easy.

depreciating assets are normal, but leaving the world to fend for themselves on how to write that expense off was their big problem IMHO

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Re:End of the Line for Uber by shaftway on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:29PM (#28200617)
They did have a lease/buy program. It was demonstrably worse than just leasing a vehicle directly (Uber would take a cut) and there were ugly questions around what happened if you stopped driving for Uber.
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Re:End of the Line for Uber by pwinnski on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:20AM (#28199112)
As the article suggests, the CEO never actually thought they could pull off self-driving cars. That was part of the shell game that is Uber.
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Re:End of the Line for Uber by mandelbrotwurst on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:19AM (#28199110)
Uber does have partnerships through which they offer expense tracking apps to their drivers.
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