There seems to be a flurry of activity from Uber recently. I wonder if the failure of their self-driving tech as evidenced by the pedestrian death and the subsequent suspension of their self driving program spooked them. The HN take on Uber's valuation seems to be that their current model of paying people to drive does not justify their valuation, but becoming the dominant ride service with self driving cars does. With their crash and Tesla's crash, maybe people are questioning just how soon real, usable self driving cars will actually be available, and Uber is scrambling to try to jump into new markets to try to prop up their valuation.