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There are a few other things they could compete on: - Availability. Who has the largest network and highest availability? - Car Design. Who has the most comfor
by choxi 10y ago
There are a few other things they could compete on:
- Availability. Who has the largest network and highest availability?
- Car Design. Who has the most comfortable or fully featured cars?
- Safety. Who has the safest car? Who has the safest track record?
It might eventually become a race to the bottom, but I think there's still plenty of opportunity to compete on other fronts for at least the next five years.
- baldeagle 10y agoAbility to clean / autonomously clean itself. I think this will be the next big thing for car ride fleets.
- maxerickson 10y agoIf you are competing on price for commuters the obvious thing is a waterproof interior and some high pressure nozzles in the ceiling. Car drives up to machine with hose, hose attaches, water sprays.
- dpark 10y agoThe obvious thing is to pay a couple of people minimum wage to sit in a parking lot and clean cars when they arrive. A car with a waterproof interior would be miserable and cheap feeling. No one wants to sit in a humid, rubber car.
- dpark 10y agoHaving a few people waiting in a parking lot to clean cars is a far more cost-effective strategy. There's no need for complex automation on this.
- ralphhughes 10y agoWe tried this with our fleet of landrovers. Each one has a waterproof interior and is plumbed with sprinkler pipe with hoze-lock connectors on the back of the vehicle so it can be plugged in to the water supply. It doesn't work, the water spray is not strong enough, or directed enough to remove the mud and sand. We still have to have people going round with water jets to spot clean. A have my doubts a fully automatic system could ever work effectively.
- jedberg 10y agoAvailability barely matters though. When I need a ride I open Lyft, see if they have a car nearby, and if the answer is no, I switch to Uber. The switching cost is so low it's negligible.