Uber will eventually replace all its drivers with self-driving cars


Uber will eventually replace the people who drive its cars with cars that drive themselves, CEO Travis Kalanick said today at the Code Conference. A day after Google unveiled the prototype for its own driverless vehicle


This is to out there for me ... I am reluctant to give up what little control... I have with driving a vehicle now ... would you except this kind of vehicle for yourself ... guess could be a good tool for someone that could be handicapped... in some way & could not drive them selves ...


http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/28/5758734/uber-will-eventually-replace-all-its-drivers-with-self-driving-cars

Self driving cars will hurt Uber more than help, IMO.

Self driving cars remove the employees. So regular, law conforming, taxi services, become more competitive than they are now.

Uber's greatest competitive advantage is with their niche social matching app. Bringing drivers and riders together.

A small percentage of actual car owners participate with Uber.

By the time self driving cars become ubiquitous enough for the small number of car owners willing to participate with Uber to participate, I believe there will be enough app competition with Uber to remove that competitive advantage.

"Buy a Ford this weekend and receive a touchscreen upgrade with 1 year membership to XM satellite iRideshareappletunes Xbox live for free!"


IMO Uber, because it's not a taxi service so much as a niche matching service, is little different than dating sites.

I think the move to self driving cars is going to be little different than the move from dating websites to dating apps.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/technology/business-of-online-dating-apps/

There's a reason why dating site developers do things like open their site to as many countries as possible, don't allow deletion of profiles, show profiles of people who haven't signed on for years, randomly match people that have nothing in common.
Keep up the number of users, keep people coming back, get the churn going, make it look like there's a huge audience of participants.

Then sell the hell out of the site and access to that huge number of users to as big a company as possible so someone else can think of a way to make money from it.

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I guess you could look at it that way... and why they made mingles two ... and very happy they kept the forums ... here in the USA are very behind in electric cars ... but that goes with are politics and those with greed ...