Is the Ride over for Uber?

Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? by michaelt on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:22PM (#31972205)

I'm not sure I agree.

I mean, it's not like Uber is buying cars in bulk at a discount smaller operators can't match, or anything like that.

And it's not like they're running a lean technology operation, with just 50 engineers globally, to get economies of scale on tech expenses.

The only economies of scale Uber has on their side is marketing.

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Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? by hotpotamus on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:38PM (#31972304)

There's also maintenance on that fleet of cars to consider and ride-share gets no economies of scale there. You know who does? Taxi companies.

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Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? by astrange on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:35AM (#31973525)

Taxi companies don’t like owning their cars either; they have the same abusive system of making the drivers be contractors who own the cars. Except Uber doesn’t let the drivers rip you off so is safer to use.

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