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Originally Posted by accord1999
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?
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.
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It's literally no different than Uber now, except with the ability to send cars to anticipated needs easier. Traffic is directional and predictable. It's not random at all on a macro level.
As for the question above, there is no demand anywhere at midnight. The demand will be in the morning and the cars will be ready somewhere nearby.