The Ride-Sharing and Robotaxi Revenue Model Problem No One Talks About

Date: 2025-02-17 By-Graphicode India

Robotaxi services are spreading broadly. While they’ve clearly had issues in San Francisco — as have I, driving in San Francisco — those challenges are improving. Now, both Uber and Lyft appear to be taking steps toward replacing their ride-share drivers with AI. We may be on the verge of one of the first large-scale AI job replacement efforts that everyone will witness. This transition will fix a key issue with ride-sharing by aligning revenue more directly with its users. However, it won’t address a deeper problem that ride-sharing has in common with social media: a decoupled revenue business model — where the people using a service aren’t necessarily funding it. Let’s talk about decoupled revenue. Then, we’ll close with my Product of the Week: a new and awesome notebook from Lenovo that sports a brand-new processor from Intel.