I hope you realize that ripping DVDs and putting them up for streaming is pretty easy, everyone was doing it before Netflix was, compared to having a fleet of autonomous vehicles that can safely operate in a multitude of urban environments, something nobody has ever done before.
You have to question the leadership of a company that's willing to throw untold billions and counting on a long-shot bet that they'll eventually have these magical cars and everything will be fine.
Once Uber can do it, soon afterwards everyone can, and what makes you think Uber will do it better when they've already had to give up so much to invent their own self-driving car solution?
Self driving cars have nothing to do with what Uber has been up to, and having a lot of cash isn't really a competitive advantage when your competitors are Google, Tesla and other car manufactures.
You have to question the leadership of a company that's willing to throw untold billions and counting on a long-shot bet that they'll eventually have these magical cars and everything will be fine.
Once Uber can do it, soon afterwards everyone can, and what makes you think Uber will do it better when they've already had to give up so much to invent their own self-driving car solution?
Their business model is completely ridiculous.