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Shenanigans..............
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Melbourne doesn't even have a TRAIN to the airport yet....
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The autonomous cars are what will make the Uber business model profitable - article I linked had 50+% of business income gone in wages iirc. If they can liberate that, they are quite profitable.
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The number of Uber-marked vehicles I see breaching road rules - most commonly disregarding "No Stopping" signs - makes me hope that an autonomous fleet might be an improvement for other road users too.
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There are no road rules anymore! The burden of road rules got shifted onto the poor kids doing 120 logged hours for Ps, while anyone else can come on all sorts of licences and drive any way they like!
As an example, one of our son's friends here for his masters, reckons the 12 points are a challenge and if you haven't used through them all you aren't living!
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There is a disconnect between the Business, and the Corporate. The latter being overinflated by massive investment, overhyped, and with an (unfortunately all too common) model of chasing inflated share prices based on constant growth and acquisition. Be interesting to see if the ride-share business survives once the corporate parent collapses. Or more likely it will go through one of those corporate mergers, where everybody comes out claiming to be a winner, after writing off $20B. |
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Not sure how an autonomous car would be cheaper than Sandeep and his 5yr old Corolla, working for about $3 an hour after fuel costs. |
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Don't forget the lawyers, court cases and bribes to Pollies.
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