I guess this is actual disruption - lots of people are already complaining about loosing jobs :).
The taxi drivers in Brussels, Berlin and Paris are complaining the most!
An Uber Impact
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Re: An Uber Impact
#52What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute to this new trend. The technology infrastructure for instant/convenient buying, selling, and delivery of goods and services has been built out. Now it can truly scale by staffing massive amounts of peo…
Well, here's some food for thought on all those new "job markets" created:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027355/pixel-and-dimed-on-not-ge...
Re: An Uber Impact
#53These stats are mindblowing. Uber is available to a little less than half of all Americans and with an average pickup time of < 10 mins. I'm amazed they were able to accomplish this in 4 years. Travis Kalanick is an insane entrepreneur.
I would give it up to their data science and machine learning team. They turned an idea into an executional reality and optimized it like no other. I just heard Kevin Novak (@novakkm) speak @ Geekdom SF and he shared the approach he took along their journey.
Is this talk available online anywhere? I'd love to hear it, or at least a broad-strokes summary.
Re: An Uber Impact
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is yes. Uber makes it so easy to quickly and painlessly get a ride that I find myself using the service much more often than I would a normal Taxi in the past. From casual observation I find this to be true for the majority of my friends and even family members as well. Normal Taxi services are a pain in the ass to book, not connected to my credit card (so you have to go through the whole guilt trip for not…
In most cities can't you just walk out on the street, stick out your arm and have a taxi at least as quickly as it takes to book and wait for one through the Uber app? I guess it's much more useful when the streets aren't filled with cabs like in the suburbs or at night.
I'm in Ireland, and while I don't use Uber (too expensive) I keep telling this story to explain why I use Hailo a lot:
Around 3am one Saturday after a family party my parents were worried about getting a taxi, because they had heard lots of horror stories of driver stealing things etc, but were prepared to catch one from the taxi rank across the road. I pulled up Hailo, was able to book (and know the driver's name a face), and have the taxi arrive before they could cross the road (in a suburban town). And since I was paying for it by card they just got in and went home and I didn't have to worry about a thing. These things sold me completely on the system.
Re: An Uber Impact
#55Uber is pretty great, and I enjoy using it, but many of these statistics are pretty weak and out of context. As others have mentioned, using "income" to describe "revenue" is inaccurate. You can't compare making $90k driving an Uber to $90k at a desk job with a completely different set of expenses. While the statistics used to determine the DUI rate in SF and Taxi crime in Chicago are beyond the levels of my knowledg…
They did give a P value, it's the final column labelled Pr (>|t|). The findings are significant.
They also gave the standard error, which you can use to compute your own confidence interval (95% would be about 2x, or ranging from no effect to a 20% reduction)
Re: An Uber Impact
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is yes. Uber makes it so easy to quickly and painlessly get a ride that I find myself using the service much more often than I would a normal Taxi in the past. From casual observation I find this to be true for the majority of my friends and even family members as well. Normal Taxi services are a pain in the ass to book, not connected to my credit card (so you have to go through the whole guilt trip for not…
In most cities can't you just walk out on the street, stick out your arm and have a taxi at least as quickly as it takes to book and wait for one through the Uber app? I guess it's much more useful when the streets aren't filled with cabs like in the suburbs or at night.
I live in a pretty central part of Chicago, and have to walk at least 3-4 blocks to get somewhere where hailing a cab within 10 minutes is a reasonable expectation.
Re: An Uber Impact
#57Politically speaking, it is very, very smart that Uber is doing these sorts of studies. As a policy wonk, I wish they were a bit more open about their datasets, analyses, and methodology, but I can see how that would just hand their opponents chances to twist it. Re: jobs created, note that Uber (very specifically, is my guess) allows us to assume FTE when they say "jobs," but is probably more likely referring to the…
I assume FTE = Full-time equivalent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time_equivalent ) in this context.
Yes, that's correct.
Re: An Uber Impact
#58Politically speaking, it is very, very smart that Uber is doing these sorts of studies. As a policy wonk, I wish they were a bit more open about their datasets, analyses, and methodology, but I can see how that would just hand their opponents chances to twist it. Re: jobs created, note that Uber (very specifically, is my guess) allows us to assume FTE when they say "jobs," but is probably more likely referring to the…
> but I can see how that would just hand their opponents chances to twist it. if opponents can twist it why shouldn't i believe uber is twisting it to begin with?
I find this GoT quote to be fitting here—
Eddard Stark: Lord Baelish, perhaps I was wrong to distrust you. Petyr Baelish: Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed off your horse.
Re: An Uber Impact
#59It's interesting to look at these figures while keeping in mind Google's self-driving car project and their large investment in Uber. In 10 years Uber will be able to replace all those jobs they've created with self-driving cars.
Re: An Uber Impact
#60What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute to this new trend. The technology infrastructure for instant/convenient buying, selling, and delivery of goods and services has been built out. Now it can truly scale by staffing massive amounts of peo…
What's also really significant is that the majority of these jobs are minimum-wage, minimum-training, completely-replaceable jobs. What these people are doing is essentially an interface between software and reality - they are human robots.
Just a temporary hold over until we have proper automated delivery machinery. And we did just get that self driving car article.