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I have same feeling, one my friend worked at a flywheel (uber but with taxi cabs)...he said that uber dominates this industry. They have figured out the biggest obstacle which is government regulations. This is the big challenge for any startup trying to copy uber.
I wouldn't call "knowingly breaking the law and throwing VC money at the lawyers until the problem goes away" necessarily "figuring out government regulations".
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Uber cannot afford to do any of the things you've listed because Uber cannot sustain the subsidies it is already giving out to its drivers. Moreover, Uber doesn't want its drivers to be educated about the true cost of operating a vehicle for Uber because if they realized how much it cost, most wouldn't do it. The only one of your bullet points Uber has pursued is the last one -- they rope drivers into car leases in h…
I wonder how come Lyft can do these things and Uber can't. This is from 2 years ago: https://thehub.lyft.com/blog/2015/01/14/partners-ehealth-top... Every Uber driver I talk to in Seattle say that Lyft is way better in terms of pay/perks but they can't get enough rides because Uber simply has a larger user base.
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By beating people to market with self driving cars. That's the reason Uber is pushing it.
Is there any evidence that Uber is even on par with the self-driving technology of Google, Cruise, or Tesla?
Because deploying Robotaxi fleets will be so capital intensive, no single company is likely to dominate the way Uber has in rideshare. There is enough demand spread out across enough different cities that they won't need to compete directly for a long time.
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Can you give the gist? You piqued my interest, but the app looks like the rabbit hole I'd rather not go down.
There seem to be two modes. First, it seems everyone hates it there and management is terrible and people get fired with no severance all the time. The other mode is aggressive recruiting. Here's an actual interaction I had: Me: I'm torn between doing something new and staying where I'm at. Random Uber employee: Hey, you should join Uber. Hit me up and I'll refer you. Me: I can assure you I'm not interested. Random U…
I apologize for the behavior of the random douchebag employee you encountered, I would hope most of us wouldn't act like that.
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> And why would they improve OSM at all? It's in their business interests to make sure their fleet and their delivery drivers have accurate mapping info. Is there something unclear about the way I worded this in the comment you responded to?
There obviously is something unclear, yes. Having accurate mapping info and improving OSM are two separate things. I asked about the latter. If that data were actually crucial to Uber's business, what possible rationale could they have to share it for free? But while we're on mapping data - I don't think "higher quality" data is in any way crucial to their business. (Owning the data so there's no dependency on third…
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Uber cannot afford to do any of the things you've listed because Uber cannot sustain the subsidies it is already giving out to its drivers. Moreover, Uber doesn't want its drivers to be educated about the true cost of operating a vehicle for Uber because if they realized how much it cost, most wouldn't do it. The only one of your bullet points Uber has pursued is the last one -- they rope drivers into car leases in h…
I wonder how come Lyft can do these things and Uber can't. This is from 2 years ago: https://thehub.lyft.com/blog/2015/01/14/partners-ehealth-top... Every Uber driver I talk to in Seattle say that Lyft is way better in terms of pay/perks but they can't get enough rides because Uber simply has a larger user base.
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Is there any evidence that Uber is even on par with the self-driving technology of Google, Cruise, or Tesla?
There's evidence that all the big players have top talent, deep pockets, and are staying abreast of the research, which is humming along. Insomuch as they're committed, there's no good reason to believe any one of them is out of the running, or more than a couple years or so behind the peloton. Because deploying Robotaxi fleets will be so capital intensive, no single company is likely to dominate the way Uber has in…
If they can't maintain their market share in a driverless car world, it's difficult to imagine how they can justify their current valuation.
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There's some baseless speculation in this thread about what's Singhal's departure meant for Google search. It's important to remember that Singhal was committed Google's knowledge graph, a painstaking, manually constructed graph of entities and relationships that surfaces the occasional answer (ask Google what the capital of Azerbaijan is and you will see a knowledge graph answer). Knowledge graphs are brittle, hard…
>Google doesn't care about organic results any more. That's BS, frankly. Do they care less than they used to, though? Their placement on the screen as opposed to KG, widgets, and ads..and how that's progressed over time, seems to imply it.
It has done this by a) Actually improving its spammy backlink detection, and b) Scary webmasters away from spammy SEO tactics through sudden updates like Panda/Penguin and straight up propaganda.
Once you solve the spam issue, Google's search results organically become better. Ergo, it doesn't need to spend that much time monitoring and improving them
I'm really confused on what to think about Uber. My personal thinking/logic is really bearish on them, similar to the post on the front page yesterday [1]. However, I keep seeing extremely smart/accomplished people joining it which makes me second guess my intuition. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437414