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by emilsedgh
3289 days ago
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I don't know why is everybody so much against the driverless cars project. I think its a nice R&D project that could pay off really really big. I don't think it costs a lot of money comparing what they are burning nowadays. I think they should: * Make sure HR problems are actually resolved internally. Its not a big problem to solve I think. * Try to grow in more towns and countries aggressively. * Use the economics of scale to bring down the costs for drivers so they can keep the cost down without paying from VC money. For example: Buy insurance in bulk for their drivers, Contract repair shops for their drivers, Even buy cars in bulk and lease them out to drivers. |
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I think it's at least partly because many people think that truly autonomous driver-less cars are much further away than they seem. (Disclaimer: put me in this camp). That is, getting 90% of the way to a truly driver-less car is hard enough... but it's the second 90% that really kills ya.
Also, assuming driver-less cars do become a "thing", there's no particular reason to think that Uber will perfect them to such a degree that gives them any kind of competitive advantage. In the end, (as this theory goes), car companies will still be the people making cars in the future, and if Uber wants driver-less cars, they will just buy them from GM, Tesla, Toyota, Mercedes or whoever.