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> Uber is not a bus company. It does not own a gigantic fleet of cars or large depots to store them in, nor does it employ mechanics and cleaners to tend to them, or have long-term contracts for gates at stations around the country.

Ironically, if Uber achieves its self-driving dreams it will have acquire all of these things.



And in doing so giving up their only "innovation" - externalizing the capital costs and risk.




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