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Re:Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission by Silfen on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:20PM (#9734969)
Uber has another big asset that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned. Their ride data will probably be hugely valuable for routing automated vehicles. I'd wager they have people working right now to find the optimal distribution of self-driving cars over a given metro area/time of day.

I'll also speculate this this is a pretty big competitive advantage. Collecting that much ride data is not trivial.

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Re:Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission by nemo44x on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @06:41PM (#9735744)
That won't be static in the age automated vehicles. Vehicles will be networked and this dynamic will change constantly. Uber's ride data is useless at that point.
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Re:Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission by CamperBob2 on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @06:45PM (#9735766)
Collecting that much ride data is not trivial.

Actually it pretty much is, if you're willing to snoop on handshaking data from peoples' cell phones.

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