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- Comment on Everything old is new again. 6 months ago:
Oh my god, I fought the urge to stop reading when I read Blockchain and read further and it kept getting worse.
Uber takes over some tasks that a distributed system cannot easily do:
- Handle disputes between driver and customer
- Vetting drivers
- Monitoring cars so that if a driver abducts you authorities can find you
- Taking over development and maintenance of the system
- Marketing
The article shows no practical solution for any of these problems. Many of the so-called solutions are down-right comical. For example:
As soon as the driver adds the basic information, the legal authorities are notified through smart contracts to perform background checks on the created profile.
So vetting shall be done by the state instead of a company. So instead of customers, tax payers should pay for it. I’m sure governments will be lining up to take on the responsibility and for me as a tax payer: hell no! I want my taxes to go into public transport and not into this bullshit.
Also, let’s be gracious and assume that blockchains and smart contracts in general solve a problem that actually exists, you would need smart contracts in case there is no neutral third party that can verify the validity of something. Why would you need that for a process where legal authorities are already involved? If you have an actual authority involved there’s an easier and faster solution: a database. Doesn’t sound as sexy does it?
Similarly, the legal authorities would conduct the same due diligence checks for the riders to ensure the safety of drivers as well.
Lol, sure they will.
When the rider reaches the desired destination, the ride will end automatically. The payment from the rider’s wallet will be deducted automatically through smart contracts and transferred to the driver’s wallet.
GPS locations can be forged easily. How would such a system reliably without a third party authority determine whether the ride ended? Scams in this system from both parties would be rampant.
And from a customer perspective: why would I need a crypto wallet for this shit? I want to use my credit card! So I need a third party to handle the payment and I sure as hell am not trusting a random driver with no oversight with my credit card information.
So to sum it up: that system solves actually none of the problems. You still need third parties involved such as payment providers and authorities, stuff Uber handles for you. You still need a third party handling disputes, which is unsolved in this article and you still need massive investment in R&D (more than a classical system) and marketing but now without a business model as an incentive for anyone to actually do this. Then you get even more problems because now you need to get government authorities involved. As you have no company with resources backing this, there is nobody capable of negotiating with these governments. Not to mention tech support to actually set up the system.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 6 months ago:
Uber was bleeding money for years, they were not profitable until very recently. How would a competitor be profitable if they exploit their drivers less? Especially because Uber only had to fight Taxis, a competitor would have to fight Taxis and Uber
- Comment on Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten 9 months ago:
Well, Boeing does suck compared to the market in their one metric, too Image Their stock is basically moving sideways since the extreme low at the start of the pandemic and the stock is basically going down since the 737 MAX grounding in March 2019. Boeing is in crisis mode for 5 years now
- Comment on The world is going to shit. Is there anything I can do about it? No, so I move on. 10 months ago:
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OP is not the only one who is lost…
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 10 months ago:
Why not use that energy for something useful?
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 10 months ago:
It’s not getting pushed, it’s being liked. Because it’s informative and entertaining. Simple really.
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 10 months ago:
How about you actually watch the video and find out?
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 11 months ago:
Both risk of collision as well as risk of injury / death if a collision occurs correlate heavily with speed. Of course it’s not the only factor, that’s why we have safety and license requirements for vehicles and drivers as well but there’s literally no better factor than speed to consider.
- Comment on You're telling me we could have seen this meme before? 1 year ago:
Close, but not quite: Data suggest tractor beam, Riker shuttle bay decompression. Picard orders tractor beam, it fails, Enterprise destroyed, timeloop begins anew.
New try, this time Data sends “3” back in the timeline to indicate that they should listen to the commander.
New try, Data understands his message just in time to also decompress the shuttle bay along with the tractor beam shenanigans. All are saved and live happily ever after.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
I mean, Bosch eBikes already do this. You can only use official batteries with them
