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To: kingu
Why wouldn't Amazon cut out the middleman (Uber) and contract directly with people (e.g., students, retirees) with a car who want some extra cash?
6 posted on 12/04/2015 10:36:45 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

Why would they want to open themselves to a massive exposure of liability? Is there a state in the US which doesn’t have an active investigation into Uber and the contract relationship that they have with drivers and whether those are actually employees?

Besides, Amazon’s looking for automated systems as their future (see Amazon Delivery Drone video for an example of the system they’re developing.)

Uber’s value (and Lyft and other services) is that they’ve already got a massive list of drivers, already vetted, around the world. If a company didn’t want to utilize them as a contract delivery service and instead wanted to do it directly, I’d honestly expect them to simply buy one of the services.


9 posted on 12/04/2015 12:06:00 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: riverdawg

Because then they’d have to take on all that organizational effort.


16 posted on 12/04/2015 12:58:24 PM PST by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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