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Originally Posted by Rain Man
It seems like driverless cars will completely change Uber's business model soon. They'll eliminate drivers and just buy driverless cars. Will this turn them into profit giant if they keep 100 percent of revenues? Or will it just continue to be a chase for low fares with their competitors?
And if we have driverless cars, do I just send my car out on its own working under uber, in which case the cost to passengers continues to go down, but I have to be above break-even as an owner, so it's just the same story as now but at lower price levels? Not sure how that'll play out.
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I wouldn’t project that any time soon.
I feel like a broken record, but my understanding of the liability rules are that if there is liability to be assessed it goes to the driver. No driver would indicate that it would fall to the manufacturer, because the machine is then responsible for collision avoidance.
Manufacturers aren’t going to play that way.
That’s my admittedly limited understanding of the situation. There has been technology for automated tractors at the very least in the field level for better than a decade and my understanding is liability is what keeps it on the shelf.