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drat, who would have thought that charging astronomical sums for basic goods during disasters could actually improve the situation. The free market really thinks of everything! I initially thought that the promise of temporary greater profits would likely be unable to cure the limited and relatively inelastic nature of the local supplies during unpredictable events and would instead result only in a windfall for the few current holders of the goods, but hell, plucky entrepreneurs could assuredly figure something out for the right price. And if the poorer families can't afford the water, the market will probably sort that out appropriately as well.
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canyoneer posted:Your friend is hitching his wagon to the wrong company, one whose CEO went on record saying he's thrilled at the prospect of replacing all the Uber drivers with driverless cars Ha, Uber would then throw away the key to its success: displacing the costs of purchasing/maintaining/gassing vehicles onto the drivers. Uber would have to own and maintain its own fleet, which would fundamentally alter the structure of the company. They would have to get at least some actual, real-life employees and infrastructure to refuel, house their fleet, etc.
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Main Paineframe posted:Not necessarily! Some techno-utopianists and techno-libertarians think that the endgame of self-driving cars is people's own private self-driving cars acting as taxis when their owner isn't using them - dropping you off at work, then running off to transport people around all day until you finish work, at which point it returns to act as your car for a while; once you're done and go home for the night, it ventures off into the dark to go haul drunks around. A few of the craziest ones even think it'll replace public transport. It sounds stupid as hell, but it's basically exactly Uber's business model, except that the owner doesn't have to be in the car, and it's done while the owner is busy rather than during their free time. That's almost certainly Uber's goal - rather than maintaining their own fleet of robot cars, they'll market a robo-Uber service to driverless car owners, serenading them with sweet talk about their car going out and earning them some bonus cash all on its own while they're working or sleeping. Sounds like a great way to get your shiny new self-driving car stolen and/or badly vandalized. I'm not sure if the current theories for legalizing self-driving cars contemplate allowing cars to drive around empty/without anyone in the driver's seat, but it might happen someday.
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