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Message: [QUOTE="Eunos_Cosmo, post: 12284714, member: 137826"] Uber is [URL='https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-uber-apps/uber-wants-to-do-it-all-ride-share-car-share-train-tickets-idUKKBN1HI2D7']launching a wave[/URL] of new services. "We’re going beyond cars. We are about mobility - making mobility available to everyone, everywhere” Considering the timing, recent events, and new CEO, I'm reading this as a pivot away from a future reliance on self driving cars as a business model. I don't believe I've heard anything about them pulling the plug, but it looks pretty untenable for them in my eyes. Waymo's tech has the perception of being far superior (because it is) and it hasn't killed anyone. Their current business model kind of all hinged around self driving cars as [I]the path[/I] to profitability. Without it, it appears they are taking a shotgun-blast approach to try to find a sustainable business model. I think Khosrowshahi is more willing to see the hard truth than Kalanick was. edit: Uber issued a press release titled "[URL='https://www.uber.com/newsroom/citesevent/']Moving forward together with cities[/URL]". I feel like this is worded very intentionally, and actually rather well. I've always felt that Uber made a lot of sense as a public service rather than as a for-profit business. It will be interesting to see where this goes, but it would actually be pretty cool to see Uber take a deep dive into municipal transit agencies. Not in the archetypal silicon valley way of disruption, but in more of a collaborative capacity. One thing Uber has genuinely revolutionized is optimizing intra-city transportation logistics on a level old-school transit agencies could only dream of. Real-time optimized & hailed bus lines? Significantly improved rail control? Now something like that could be useful, especially if there isn't such a strong onus on/distraction of profit making. Of course this is all my speculation. [/QUOTE]

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