It should just be a monitoring and override system.  This would actually save all the lives that AV promises to save.

Hell I am from San Jose and I don’t believe we will ever have full AV.  It’s a fucking nightmare out on 280 or 101 on the daily.

A lot of accidents would be avoided if all highways prohibited immediate multiple lane changes within x00 feet of entering the highway.

Oh look another Prius or Leaf in the left lane trying to hyper-mile.

not that’s fucking stupid, the system works fine now

Finally someone gets it.

That would be totally fucked for riders...I don’t want some jackass driver deciding to charge me $100 bucks for a one mile drive because it’s 2AM and i am drunk.

What are you even talking about, the fact that one idiot couldn’t get his shit together to register his personal vehicle and he happened to drive for Uber?

and yet everyone knows uber drivers and building contractors are all independent contractors

It’s almost like you don’t get that building a global business takes some losses.

This would not be a business.

you are simply ignoring the fact that hundreds of millions if not billions have been spent to build out the business...this spend doesn’t have to continue once total market share (not against cabs, that’s dumb, against total driven miles) is achieved.

A big pot of money isn’t an endless pot. And leave automated out of this...it won’t happen for years. The real goal is to get people used to using uber, not versus cabs but versus driving themselves (this is already a success in large metros, but the olds and suburbs still aren’t using uber enough).

Collective bargaining is a lark. Unions are pretty much DOA in the US, and Uber is a global business. Wages would not go up (cash on cash a full time uber driver makes more than minimum wage...the post depreciation stuff is nonsense...ask any commuter to a minimum wage job).

No it’s nothing like that.

It’s not price-fixing, total nonsense.  Taxis across the country are “owner-operated” yet they always charge the network price (one yellow cab charges the same as every other yellow cab, but each cab is a separate company).  This is just more bullshit smear against Uber.

What’s more, this has zero to do with being a contractor.  You can tell the guy who came to fix your plumbing to shut up and work, that doesn’t make him your employee.

Bullshit.  Trump is a corrupt con man, and there is clearly some very nasty shit in his tax returns (otherwise he wouldn’t be fighting so hard against their release).  Congress needs this information to determine whether or not at a minimum impeachment should be pursued, and there should also be new laws put in place…

More importantly, Uber’s take rate is actually lower than (for example) the amount that Apple takes for apps sponsored on the app store (30% for app store, 20ish for Uber).

only if the side gig is a job