Great explanation of how Uber could get so big. I never really understood why Uber made it and nobody before, because the App itself does not seem like a revolutionary idea. There must have been apps like that around already and lost of people must have thought of it. I mean I certainly thought of this long before I heard of Uber.<p>But the missing piece of the puzzle, which this article filled in was that it was never really about the app. It was about using money cleverly to get this thing going.<p>Now Uber has first mover advantage. But I can see many potential problems for them. They have advantage in name recognition and momentum but I can&#x27;t see much else advantage.<p>The tech should be easy to replicate. So I think what will matter in the future is who manages to figure out the best way to use autonomous vehicles.<p>In this regard I&#x27;d rather place my bets on Tesla. If they as they hinted get into doing Uber like stuff in the future with autonomous cars, they have a clear advantage as they got advantages in more fields than Uber which can enhance this particular business.<p>By controlling the cars, they are pulling in more data than anybody else on autonomous driving at the moment. They are already beating the master data collector Google, collecting more data then they do in a year on autonomous driving.