Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

Post by recursive » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 12:25 AM UTC

serve_yay wrote: post #88

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I've bought food with Wallet before. And made a meal of it. So, I suppose I have.

Welcome to HN, where "nobody uses x" is disproved by one person using x, because the only logic in existence is Popperian.

Post by pyrocat » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 12:27 AM UTC

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That $0.56 number includes depreciation. There are other costs like insurance which are non-trivial. Initially at least, it's not going to be much less.

> That $0.56 number includes depreciation. Electric vehicles would depreciate at a much slower rate than ICE vehicles, as the only components that wear would be moving parts (electric motor, fans for cabin comfort) and any degradation to the battery pack (Tesla has packs at 500K miles that still have 80% capacity).

Post by xixixao » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 12:29 AM UTC

xixixao wrote: post #76

I also don't understand how this is news to anyone. The fact that Google wasn't planning on selling its driverless cars but instead provide a service was discussed months ago, including the fact that the way this service would be purchased via a phone. I am especially doubtful Uber's board wouldn't notice this...

Post by billsimpson » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 12:33 AM UTC

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Facebook was viewed as a threat to Google for two primary reasons: - Facebook had access to tremendous amounts of personal information, and it was assumed they could leverage this data to improve ads and search and beat Google at their own game. - Everyone sat at their desktop computer staring at Facebook for hours on end, making it valuable ad real estate. Again, this cut into Google's core business. So is Uber a co…

Passengers in cars are potentially a huge captive advertising audience.

Post by olssy » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 12:34 AM UTC

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hosay123 wrote: post #18

My inner paranoid finds this interesting from the perspective of Google entering yet another domain where they have high accuracy data on the present/future whereabouts and private concerns of a large number of people.. add it to the hundred other properties they maintain that appear to have no direct business value other than capturing masses of sensitive data that was previously nicely decentralized and private. Ca…

I wonder if eventually NSA will get massive layoffs because much of what they'd do would be redundant, and for 80 percent of the stuff they want they could just ask/hack Google. The other 20 percent employees will remain for users of Google competitors and more targeted spying. So essentially 80 percent of NSA's "intelligence" would be outsourced to Google (for free).