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singpolyma3today at 4:32 PM1 replyview on HN

In a free market it would be stop paying drivers so everyone can pay less for taxis.

But the market is so unbelievably messed up that this is not what happens in practise.


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fn-motetoday at 4:41 PM

Disagree.

The work on self-driving cars would not be done if there were not a way to profit from it. If it isn’t expected to earn more than it costs, it wouldn’t be done.

Now maybe it’s all being done because of expectations of a monopoly (this is a free market consequence, right?), but …

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