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veen  ·  3327 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Uber Raises Funding at $62.5 Billion Valuation

The weird thing about Uber is that they have not shown much proof of being able to build anything like a self-driving car. All they have now are promises, smart people and PR - apparently that is enough to get a sky-rocketing valuation.

I do agree that transporation as a service is the way of the future. I'd love to just selfdrive-Uber my way around. But I wouldn't be surprised to see car companies leasing vehicles to service providers like Uber. A company like Apple might be more likely to control the entire supply chain because that's what they're good at.