Comments on: Autonomous Autos – The back foot. https://www.radiofreemobile.com/autonomous-autos-the-back-foot/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: windsorr https://www.radiofreemobile.com/autonomous-autos-the-back-foot/#comment-1268 Wed, 31 May 2017 08:39:51 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=3946#comment-1268 disagree completely. They are marketplaces first and foremost. If one end of the marketplace vanishes then the market place itself collapses. This is why they have to have an autonomous offering as that is what will replace the selling part of the euqation and they go from a market place to selling a service. If they dont have the service its game over, good night, value = 0.

]]> By: Victor https://www.radiofreemobile.com/autonomous-autos-the-back-foot/#comment-1267 Wed, 17 May 2017 14:55:10 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=3946#comment-1267 “The problem that all the ride hailing companies face is that if all cars become autonomous, then their current businesses become obsolete as, while there will be riders, there will be no drivers.”

This is not a problem, this is the goal. The ride hailing companies cannot wait for this to happen soon enough.

They will continue to charge riders (obviously), and won’t have to pay drivers any longer, won’t have to deal with court cases over whether a driver is an employee or not, driver misbehavior, or any of the other troubles that drivers have by virtue of being human.

Ride hailing companies current business is on matching riders with a vehicle and taking payment. They don’t care if they own the vehicle, and they certainly don’t care who the driver is, provided they get paid. Their business is in maps and managing that dispatch. Riders are irrelevant to their future business.

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