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They spent $2.5b on #SelfDrivingCars, producing a vehicle whose mean distance between fatal crashes was *half a mile*. Then they paid another company *$400 million* to take this self-licking ice-cream cone off their hands:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Amazingly, self-driving cars were among the *more* plausible of Uber's plans.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

They pissed away hundreds of millions on California's #Prop22 to institutionalize worker misclassification, only to have the rule struck down because they couldn't be bothered to draft it properly. Then *they did it again* in Massachusetts:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/simple-as-abc/#a-big-ask

Remember when Uber was going to plug the holes in its balance sheet with *flying cars*? Flying cars!

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