SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business model

Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:28PM (#32640125)

There's research out there showing Uber has increased congestion on public roads, and I think also driven up carbon footprint per passenger. In part this is because it's cheaper than it should be. Incentivising less people per vehicle (taxis versus e.g. busses) is bad for society at large.

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Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by whywhywhydude on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:18PM (#32640805)

Is there a research on how many DUI deaths and accidents Uber has prevented? How about people who didn’t buy cars because Ubering is much easier?

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Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by arrosenberg on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:41PM (#32641124)

6% or ~500 lives per year according to this article (though it notes an increase in vehicle related deaths, so some of that may be cancelled by the additional road traffic) - https://qz.com/2038153/drunk-driving-deaths-dropped-as-more-...

Not a bad result, but probably not worth the problems that their current business model entails. There's clearly opportunities for better transportation options, they just need to make economic sense.

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Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by duped on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:45PM (#32641167)

There's a lot of research and much of it is conflicting, here's two examples with vastly different conclusions

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/278...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w29071

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Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by whywhywhydude on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:13PM (#32642254)

Both researches show benefits but the nber one somehow twists it into a different narrative. I understand why hackernews users hate uber, but shouldn’t professional economists try to be unbiased?

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Re:SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business ... by duped on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:25PM (#32642395)

The point of the nber study is that there's a ton of varying answers out there. If it's biased towards anything it's "good science."

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