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When car companies will become taxis, repairs will stop being profit centres, so the incentive will be to make more durable cars. Also electric cars will become
by lukasm 9y ago
When car companies will become taxis, repairs will stop being profit centres, so the incentive will be to make more durable cars. Also electric cars will become more convenient with AI Taxi. Uber drivers don't use their cars 24/7. AI Taxi can deliver good between companies in the night. There is so much room for improvement. Right now it won't be 1/3 of the cost, but in the future AI Taxi will cost as much as public transport.
- vonmoltke 9y ago> When car companies will become taxis, repairs will stop being profit centres, so the incentive will be to make more durable cars. I think manufacturing cost is a much stronger driver of shitty reliability than repairs being a profit center. After all, in the US dealer system the manufacturer isn't getting the profits, the dealer is. > Uber drivers don't use their cars 24/7. AI Taxi can deliver good between companies in the night. Keeping complex systems like that running constantly is difficult and expensive. It also wears said systems out faster and increases capital costs.
- amelius 9y ago> the manufacturer isn't getting the profits, the dealer is Pardon my ignorance, but why doesn't the manufacturer open a dealership then?
- lukasm 9y agoThis maybe US specific. Google "tesla can't sell directly to customers"
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoIt also wears said systems out faster and increases capital costs This is a good point. When you purchase capital equipment, your incentive is to keep it utilized as much as possible to maximize ROI. That means you're going to want your self-driving car fleet parked as little as possible because when they're parked, they're not making you money. Now that the cars are driven far more than regular passenger cars, their maintenance needs go up. So either these cars will need to be built to the reliability needs of over-the-road trucks, which will greatly increase costs, or their maintenance will have to be more frequent, which is even more expensive.
- xbmcuser 9y agoThey will move to electric cars as they have fewer moving parts so maintenance compared to petrol cars will be a lot less.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoThere are fewer moving parts in the engine and (perhaps) transmission. Same number of moving parts everywhere else. And remember it's a car: things you don't think of as "moving parts" are still in motion and will be degraded by vibration, dirt, road salt, etc.