Ask HN: As driverless increases, Uber should disappear, what do you predict?
Uber's defendability lies on the two-sided marketplace they have created. As driverless cars take the streets, then that marketplace will become a single-sided need for a service. This service (transportation) with driverless cars is just a simple utility measured against: price, quality and reliability. These are the same quality measures we use for electricity, gas, water, etc.
I can see an open-market in the future where anyone can buy a driverless car and add it to this open-market much in the same way that we can generate electricity and feed it back into the grid.
I predict the power of future transportation will then fall in the hands of the manufacturers of such cars, and not the market makers (i.e.: Uber).
What are your predictions for 2026? Is my analysis incorrect or on point?
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