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Also, just plain convenience. You want to go into the city center for a date, e.g. wife and I want to go have dinner at the Hayes St. Grille and hear a concert
by fernly 11y ago
Also, just plain convenience. You want to go into the city center for a date, e.g. wife and I want to go have dinner at the Hayes St. Grille and hear a concert at SF Jazz. Today: drive into the city, deal with stressful traffic, also stress at finding somewhere to park which will often be blocks from the restaurant. After, walk some blocks through the dark streets, drive home.
Tomorrow: driverless Lyft. Request a Lyft, hop in, ignore traffic entirely while talking or reading; step out at the door of the restaurant. After, request a Lyft while walking out of concert, step out the door of SF Jazz and hop into car(1), read/chat on the way home. The reduction of stress is huge, the whole date is much more enjoyable.
(1) This scenario does reveal a future problem, what happens when a whole bunch of people call for a driverless ride after an event? Does this happen now, are bunches of people competing for Ubers and Lyfts after concerts today? How will we identify ourselves to a _driverless_ car as being the requesting party?
- afarrell 11y agoWhat happens is that in order to request a lyft, you'll put in your destination and if a bunch of people put in a similar destination, the option will pop up to take an auto-scheduled van/minibus. Also, lyft will download the Giants schedule.
- ams6110 11y agowhat happens when a whole bunch of people call for a driverless ride after an event They will pay more.
- hahla 11y agoTo your point (1). Uber and Lyft have already figured this out with surge pricing.