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Ya, this sounds like an easy problem to solve. If the passenger doesn't exit the vehicle after a set time, start a video call to a support central (perhaps the
by TheCoreh 9y ago
Ya, this sounds like an easy problem to solve.
If the passenger doesn't exit the vehicle after a set time, start a video call to a support central (perhaps the person is unable to get out because the doors won't unlock? or they fell asleep?) The attendant could then instruct the vehicle to go to a pre-specified location nearby where a human can intervene, call another vehicle or notify the competent authorities.
- sirclueless 9y agoThere are certainly cases where going to another location will be impossible. If the passenger opens the door and does not exit, for example, there is no way to close the door or to move the vehicle. But I agree with the overall point, while occasional incapacitated passengers or manual intervention may occur, these are not insurmountable problems.
- samstave 9y agoI suggest you do the math on this though since you think its so simple: Ride is avg $10, vehicle is ~$30,000 satellite uplink is ~1200 per year. BOFH guy watching is ~$65k per year... insurance is ~$2400/ year... so if we take that, we have an annual cost of (assuming life of care is 3 years) 10000+65000+1200+2400 - so ~80K per year per car... and / BOFH among his volume to monitor N cars.... but we extract the BOFH from the car model. so we have a per car cost of 15K per year and we have an avg rider value of 10 per ride, and a ride volume of 1,500 rides per month / BOFHs required / insurance claim / lawsuits and we can suss out the model pretty well... but there are a lot more inputs. and if this is going to be a service to public from multi-parties, we'd better understand this model.... and they'd better be standard on the CARNOC