Driverless cars will take some of your work. The question is not whether to stop them — it is whether you use the window before they arrive to build an income they cannot touch. Here is how.
Uber is acquiring Blacklane — the last major premium chauffeur platform that offered London’s PHV drivers an alternative. Combined with its AV strategy and its control of dispatch software, the deal completes a market encirclement that no competition regulator has yet examined in full.
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