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Owning your own self-driving car would make sense there. But in rural areas, you'd have to wait too long for a centralized service's car to show up because of
by white-flame 10y ago
Owning your own self-driving car would make sense there.
But in rural areas, you'd have to wait too long for a centralized service's car to show up because of lack of economy of scale, and the larger distances it'd have to service. In theory, you could schedule them well ahead of time to arrive when needed, but that's far less convenient and the scale & distance will still significantly affect the price.
- Rapzid 10y agoYeah, owning personal transportation isn't going anywhere for a LONG time except, largely, in certain growing circles in less than a handful of US Urban centers. For everyone else self-driving will just another trickle-down feature their cars get; like electronic stability control. When the Ford Fiesta has had self-driving features for 3 years(so I can pick it up used) that's when I'll have it. And that's probably about when it will start seeing widespread adoption; when it's available standard in lower-end cars and used lower-end cars.