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So I imagine the question every self employed person with a car will be asking themselves right now is this: will I make more money driving for Uber or driving for Amazon?

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Somebody needs to work out how you drop of packages for Amazon while driving passengers around for Uber.

Actually - not completely crazy - how willing would you be as a passenger to take a few detours to get a saving on your taxi bill?

Uber Pool for things.

In London you see them working for food and other delivery services on the side quite often.

Hmm. Sounds like an opportunity for a new business? Fluber will spawn itself as a broker to both services -- you just go where the app tells you and pick up your cargo (packages or people) and shuttle them to where the app tells you to go.

This is starting to sound suspiciously like missions in Grand Theft Auto. Now we need an app that shows you the best places to carjack and a social networking service for people who plan heists.

You'll need to also provide a voip service that will obnoxiously ping you for "entertainment".

Flüber - disintermediating the sharing economy!

Uber has already branched out to meal deliveries, so this is not far from their wheelhouse... no pun intended (actually it was).

For me personally (and I imagine many others), not willing at all. I use Uber when I need to be somewhere quickly, so I'm not going to risk being late so I can save $5.

I'm actually curious if anyone knows how well Uber Pool is working? I've never used it for a few reasons, but a big one is that I don't want to risk another rider pickup causing me delay in getting to my destination.

I think that is part of the equation - some drivers may not be interested in having the liability of having passengers in their car?

Well, I presume Amazon Flex would have lower acceptance criteria than Uber. Just because of the different nature of services. For example, if you have an old car, you may not be suitable for Uber.

Why limit to one? Perhaps a fair logistic syndicator, where companies send their delivery requests when they've exhausted their permanent staff capacity.

Maybe something like milkthemiles.com - make the retailers agree to your demand pricing not the inverse (tm)...

Uber will surely let you deliver packages soon. They already do lunch.

Uber is testing exactly this:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/uber-is-quietly-testing-a-m...

I can imagine a near future of driverless vans going all around the city with packages. They show up at your door (or wherever you are) and you get a code on your phone. You enter the code on the van's door. It unlocks and you pick out your package.

The problem would be making sure that people can easily find their packages, and that they don't steal others' packages (which would be easy to check)

An internal robot will put only your package on the loading ramp and close the interior door before opening the exterior door.

I imagine that people will be doing both. I already see a lot of people driving for both Uber and Lyft. Soon there'll be drivers delivering packages and people

why not both?

If you have a bunch of parcels in the boot of your car you deliver them when you are nearby on an Uber call or when you have no uber work.

why couldn't you do both?

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