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Based on economics, self-driving cars are not necessarily attractive in India. Consider that in US the cheapest ZipCar is ~$8/hr. Adding even the cheapest hum
by kjksf 9y ago
Based on economics, self-driving cars are not necessarily attractive in India.
Consider that in US the cheapest ZipCar is ~$8/hr.
Adding even the cheapest human driver working at minimum wage is ~$15/hr.
Adding a human driver in US makes the trip 3x more expensive.
Or to put it another way: a self-driving trip can be 3x less expensive.
Or to put it another way: a $30 trip from SF downtown to airport becomes $10 trip which is competitive with BART prices.
I don't know what is the minimum wage in India, but per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India per capita income is $1670 / year which is probably less than $1 per hour.
In other words: self-driving cars only make economic sense in countries where humans are expensive.
- thanksgiving 9y ago> Or to put it another way: a $30 trip from SF downtown to airport becomes $10 trip which is competitive with BART prices. I looked up BART because of what you said and it looks pretty bad. https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/bart-comp-all.csv https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/bart-comp-a... 175 people make six figures in base pay. The total cost of employment is ridiculously high. I don't know anything about BART but they clearly need to lay off a lot of people. This is ridiculous.