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Uber car vs the bicycle: Who will win the innovation race?

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An Uber rider on Peponi Road. [XN Iraki]

The other day, I saw a young man riding a bicycle with a backpack written "Uber Eats" on Peponi Road.

I guess he was delivering or had just delivered food somewhere. Uber is modern, bicycle is old fashioned. Yet "the dance" between the two defines the nation's economic future.

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