I don't understand the Uber hate. Don't be mad that you were a driver and it wasn't as lucrative as you thought America. Even with your ways of scamming the system.

Now the CEO is on video berating and fingerpointing a driver. This is after reports that the company STILL isn't profitable and never will be at the current slave rates unless they take a larger cut from drivers or got lucky with a technological breakthrough in self driving.

Rideshare will NEVER be profitable for the drivers. I know this first hand, it's a sub-minimum wage job that depreciates and expensive asset to the point of worthlessness. Uber may have more PR problems than Lyft, but it still has a lot more riders and if they cannot be profitable Lyft cannot either. So does this mean that when the bear market hits in the next 12 to 18 mo.s and investors become more shy about propping these companies up that this whole rideshare fad disappears?

Cabs and LY's, say what you will about them, but they are profitable for drivers and companies.

Driverless will be here soon. And Uber is a household name. So I do not know if bad PR is enough to bring them down. What video?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ling-fares

"Driverless will be here soon" - you cannot possibly be certain of this. Either post a screencap of your investment portfolio putting your money where you mouth is or quit talking out of your ass. The timetable of driverless cars has been completely obfuscated by the blogging-industrial complex's insatiable desire to pump future tech whether or not its feasible. The engineers who are actually working on these things dont know when they'll be ready.

"Driverless will be here soon" - you cannot possibly be certain of this. Either post a screencap of your investment portfolio putting your money where you mouth is or quit talking out of your ass. The timetable of driverless cars has been completely obfuscated by the blogging-industrial complex's insatiable desire to pump future tech whether or not its feasible. The engineers who are actually working on these things dont know when they'll be ready.

They'll fold the day after unprofitable Amazon.

They'll fold the day after unprofitable Amazon.

The issue with driverless is not the vehicle. It is the infrastructure and the public policy. Things like retrofitting stop lights to transmit to driverless vehicles. Or how to stop a platoon of seven electronically connected trucks along the side of the Edens when the fourth truck gets a flat tire.

They'll fold the day after unprofitable Amazon.

Its funny that these so called geniuses that are VC's like that dickbag Chris Sacca love to scream" I invested in uber "


What are your returns asshole?

VC firms will make a killing after the eventual IPO. Check out Snap's IPO to see how these things go. Now Theranos, well that's a nice implossion where its backers will get killed.

You can apply the "its why its called gambling not winning" adage to VC.

No the issue is definitely the vehicle. Policy? wtf lol who gives a shit you can change road laws pretty fucking easily.

It's a good amount of money to get a ride to the airport in a cab from a lot of suburbs. Does anyone know if Uber is cheaper than getting a cab to an airport from the suburbs?

It's a good amount of money to get a ride to the airport in a cab from a lot of suburbs. Does anyone know if Uber is cheaper than getting a cab to an airport from the suburbs?

CEO didn't berate the driver in that video. Driver was using alternative facts to confront the CEO and blaming him for his own poor choices. CEO wasn't having it.

Driver was probably America.

You dumbass, the cars can drive themselves all they want, if the infrastructure isn't there to handle it properly, it's not going to mean shit.

1. Self-driving cars should be able to have shorter following distances. This has already been demonstrated in truck platooning for the military. That means less congestion, but only if driver-operated cars don't get in the fucking way. Are you going to let some streets be driverless only? And if so, are the poor people going to scream that you're favoring the rich?

2. Self-driving cars need to be able to "speak" to the infrastructure. Stop lights, emergency vehicles, that kind of shit. Chicago can't maintain what it has, are they going to have the money to upgrade four fucking stop lights every mile to properly leverage the self-driving vehicles?

3. Insurance is going to be completely different. How are states which are insurance company heavy going to replace the jobs and the tax revenue? Less tax revenue, less things like public transportation.

Just a few questions. "Pass a few laws?" Do you see what's happening in this country? Nobody can pass laws about anything. The left is going to scream that self-driving cars are a tool of the rich and Google and Amazon are going to make all the money and that poor urban minorities are going to get screwed. The rural right Bannonite white males are going to scream because they're the poor bastards who have to drive 50 miles on an empty four lane road through cornfields to take their girlfriend to a fucking Applebee's, and they want a self driving car so they can get a blowjob on the way home. You actually think passing laws and setting policies for this shit is going to be easy?