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Uber is not a taxi company. They do not compete with Taxis, but with car ownership.

EDIT: I knew if I won't make my point explicit it will be misread. I was referring to:

> Then, we'll see if they'll really survive as a taxi company.

They are building self-driving cars to create a logistic company. They have a limited interest in being a taxi company(in a classical sense), therefore they don't care much.



Yes they are. They're a company which provides a car and driver to get from point A to point B on demand. That's a taxi company.

If you want someone competing with car ownership look at companies like Zipcar.


By that token, taxi companies aren't taxi companies.

Uber is a taxi company. Actually it's a taxi middleman because it doesn't want to treat drivers as employees.


right, because nobody on here has read Zero To One, so nobody will recognize that "define yourself as a new category if your real category is highly regulated" game.

and because taxi companies don't already compete with car ownership.

sure.


Don't taxis as a business compete with car ownership?


No, they're too expensive. UberX is cheap enough to compete with car ownership.




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