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by dkrich 638 days ago
The economics of this seem highly questionable. After all how many robotaxi companies can there possibly be given the costs associated with vehicle ownership and autonomous software development? In a world where it costs nothing to create content or launch a drop shipping business aggregators like meta and Amazon make sense. But if you end up with like three AV providers, Uber seems like an unnecessary middleman in a business where margins are already incredibly tight.

You have to always remember that the competition is a guy in a car charging a couple bucks a mile