When you large fleets of cars you will do maintenance more like how cars are built. With basically an assembly line. But you would also push some of the work

When you large fleets of cars you will do maintenance more like how cars are built. With basically an assembly line. But you would also push some of the work out to cheaper labor and centrally. So replace the entire wheel instead of the tire. Then ship off the wheel with the old tire to be replaced somewhere else and centrally. But it is about the economics. Today car dealers lose money on every car sold and make their money from maintenance. “Yes, the typical new car sold loses a dealership about $200.” https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/articles/show_me_the_money_how_do_car_dealerships_make_their_profit https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/articles/show_me_the_money_how... Which is why maintenance is so expensive. I would expect Waymo to invest heavily on improving this significantly. Waymo will not be a tier 1 provider, IMO. They have shared rolling out their commercial ride sharing in Arizona later this year and testing today. The thing is they started way earlier then others. This is from nine years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V2bcbJZuPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V2bcbJZuPQ Google was the top place to work for six straight years and so they were getting the cream of the crop. They then get to triage those engineers and send the cream of the crop of the cream of the crop to Waymo. Then there is the massive infrastructure that Google has to leverage. SDC is an software engineering exercise. Who is better at software engineering? Look at the automated testing that Waymo has. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid... How would you ever do SDC without this?