[a2tech]

1) Support the self driving thing for another round of funding, then stuff it. I agree with someone else in the thread-its too blue sky now to be wasting money on. Let other companies chase it into the ground then license it when its commercially viable

2) Refocus on the core product. Drop the tipping, convert more drivers through incentives or slightly bumping fare payouts on the backend. They can pull some of the cash they'll save from dumping self-driving tech on this. People won't use competitors if they don't have drivers and the fares are higher

3) They should really consider having a few real employees in hot markets that screen first time drivers and their cars. I've had a few drivers show up in vehicles that technically met Uber's standards, but were really shitbuckets. Thats not the image Uber wants to present.

[eugeniub]

Without something like self-driving, what differentiates Uber from Lyft and other future competitors? A 1.5 star App Store rating? Greyball?

[a2tech]

The car companies are all perusing self driving technology. It's realistically years and years out. If uber hoovers up the drivers now, there won't be (in wide spread consumer perception) competition in the future because uber will have driven the other competitors out of business.