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> I certainly don't want random people inside my car when I'm not around It's not your car, it's Waymo's car. Waymo outfits the cars, provides continuous moni
by panarky 8y ago
> I certainly don't want random people inside my car when I'm not around
It's not your car, it's Waymo's car.
Waymo outfits the cars, provides continuous monitoring and support, operates a fleet of field techs for repair and cleaning, takes responsibility for insurance and regulatory compliance, provides dispatch and routing services, collects payments, etc.
The cost is justified by high utilization of the fleet. The economics don't work for a single car doing nothing 95% of the time.
Why would anyone want to own their own self-driver?
> Utterly backwards. Make something cheaper easier or better, and we use more of it, not less.
Yep, it's impossible to make anything cheaper, easier or better, because it instantly goes to shit when people want more of it.
- viraptor 8y ago> Why would anyone want to own their own self-driver? Because they don't live in a large city for example. It's easier to cover a known average of rides with a million of users than when you have a town of 2000. You have a normal day where many projects walk to work, you get a local event where 200 people may turn to, you get forest fire where 2000 people need to get out.