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No offense, but yes you are missing the point. The whole value of autonomous taxis or autonomous delivery robots is that it eliminates the most expensive thing
by dawhizkid 8y ago
No offense, but yes you are missing the point. The whole value of autonomous taxis or autonomous delivery robots is that it eliminates the most expensive thing about the business model of Uber/Lyft/Instacart/etc: labor.
Once you create a taxi or delivery service where you have no labor cost, then your unit economics greatly improve and you have a killer business.
If you have a $10 Uber ride, ~$7.50 or so of that goes to the driver with $2.50 to Uber. With an autonomous taxi model Uber could theoretically halve fares, in this case to $5, and take in the entire $5 for themselves.
- mb_72 8y agoPlease try and convince me that someone operating a fleet of delivery robots that costs many thousands of euros each is going to be 'cheaper' than utilising the current model of people + their own cars. Where I live (Estonia), delivery adds a few euros to the cost of food (for example). Even if that was reduced to a single euro that wouldn't make any difference to if we ordered food to home or not.
- tdhoot 8y agoThat $7.50 pays to cover capital costs (the car). Uber would have to also pay for that out of their share. The general point is that the savings might not be enough to offset the higher capital costs from autonomous vehicles + development spend.