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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
No, you're not picking anyone else up or dropping anyone else off. There's no need. The car that picked you up will drop you up the nearest person calling for a car. It's Uber on scale without people driving
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But transportation demand isn't randomly distributed, it's often directional and changes with time. Using your previous example of the hockey game, you have a car drive passengers to the arena. But where's your next fare going to come from? There's unlikely to be much demand from the arena for the next three hours. And then after the game, when you drive people home to the suburbs, how much demand will there be from the suburbs at midnight? Even if you're lucky enough to get a fare, it's likely going to be fair distance away.
These are issues that kill profitability and are currently best addressed by not taking fares that are too far away. Something that a service that is trying to replace private transport and mass transit can't do.