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Re:Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities... by jasonjmcghee on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:35PM (#43987781)
> Get users to enter where they live, where they end to go, and roughly at what time

Friends / people I've seen using uber have "home" and "work" saved. And they have trip history. They likely already have a very good sense of this stuff.

Re:Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities... by belinder on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:40PM (#43987849)
Problem is you don't want necessarily to sell this to people you have frequent/consistent trips for, as you're getting a lot of money from that. Here you want to capture the market of people that aren't using the service, so it's not information from the app