[justaman]

This article fails to mention Uber's potential to disrupt the trucking industry. Uber has been heavily invested in automated driving since inception. They will not see true profit until this hits the market.

[thesimon]

And what prevents car or truck manufacturers from doing the same? It's not like they are just happy sitting around and doing nothing.

Also looks like the large losses are coming from subsidizing drivers, not R&D.

[kbart]

"And what prevents car or truck manufacturers from doing the same?"

They are already doing that: http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-of-trucks-just-drove-themselves...

[readhn]

Mercedes already drives a bunch of self driving trucks in Europe. Volvo is in the game as well etc.

Uber is just a service provider. They don't build anything. Anyone can be a service provider with enough funding.