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by stale2002 3367 days ago
I don't know. The market will decide.

Maybe they will have other jobs. Most uber drivers work part time anyway, so that's not any different.

Maybe you have to pay people a premium to be an emergency driver.

Or maybe people will just drive less when it is snowing. Most of the time when I am using transportation, I don't 100% NEED to go on the trip. Maybe Ill just buy groceries tomorrow instead of today.

But even so, if 90% of the time, transportation prices are near 0 $, that is still crazy distruptive.

The market can easily solve any of the problems you are bringing up, just with behavioral/price chances.

And trucking isn't even affected by any of the issues you brought up. An x% chance of being a day late is easily worth 90% shipping cost decreases.