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You will just hail one for less than the cost of gas. If the cost of the ride is less than the cost of gas, how is the operator making a profit? Especially sin
by ubernostrum 9y ago
You will just hail one for less than the cost of gas.
If the cost of the ride is less than the cost of gas, how is the operator making a profit? Especially since they have to cover more than just the cost of gas.
(an Uber-style "use VC money to subsidize below-cost services" model is not sustainable in the long term, by the way)
- closeparen 9y agoI think the point is that they’ll be electric.
- sah2ed 9y agoIn addition to closeparen's point that such autonomous cars will be electric, they will also have much lower mantenance costs due to the lower internal complexity of doing away with the ICE.
- CPLX 9y agoThis is self evidently true because incredibly complex software implementations that interact with the real world have no maintainance requirements.
- abritinthebay 9y ago... hoping sarcasm. But you never know on here...