The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow
The War on Cars
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Is the Self Driving Car a Scam?
Uber was always going to be a failure, right? But uber had a huge advantage, which was that it was a front for the house of sad. Soft bank is th is the executing armothis. They have 80 billion dollars from hous sad, and they have done all kinds of crazy things with it. And their total addressable market was every ride that takes anyone in a private car, every taxi in the world,. Our market is becoming very clear: Uber will take a piece of it but we don't know how much. It's gone from like 20 billion to six billion in the last year. You know, even with the funny accounting, it's pretty clear that that cash
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