In the wake of the recent legalisation of Uber in Victoria (Australia) and news about self-driven car test that the company conducting in Pittsburgh, I decided to make a short analysis of self-driven taxi industry prospects. The questions I was interested are: How will introduction of autonomous cabs will change Continue Reading
Antifragility stress-test: Uber as a black swan for taxi industry
In his famous books Fooled by Randomness”, “Black Swan” and “Antifragility” Nicholas Taleb refers to taxi driver as an example of the profession that is pretty antifragile. There can be bad day or week, but in general over the longer term as a taxi driver you should be OK, at Continue Reading