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Old 11-08-2015, 04:24 PM   #776
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler View Post
Given that we are living through the dying days of the professional driver, I wonder what the long-term play for Uber is? Once we don't need other people to drive us, what then? Is Uber planning to be what Amazon is to cloud computing? I think Google already has their eye on that prize - that's the play here, right - the car "cloud"? I am not much of a techie, so you guys tell me...
I can see Uber leading the self driving car revolution. Same service they have now, but cutting the person out of it. The biggest downside to Uber in this model becomes the cost of purchasing and maintaining the fleet of cars.
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