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It's cheap in NorCal - my friend had a Model 3 delivered by a dude. Literally. A dude drove his car to his house and then called Uber. P.S. by "dude" I meant t
by smolsky 8y ago
It's cheap in NorCal - my friend had a Model 3 delivered by a dude. Literally. A dude drove his car to his house and then called Uber.
P.S. by "dude" I meant that the man just drove the car to the owner's place from their Fremont factory (30 min).
- turtlegrids 8y agoThat.... doesn’t sound shady. At all.
- JeremyBanks 8y agoWhat would it have been if not a dude?
- maratd 8y agoA dudette?
- mh8h 8y agoThe car driving itself?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago"Welcome to Johnny Cab"
- johnnycab 8y agoHell of a day, isn't it?
- ErikVandeWater 8y agoDude implies something about how he was dressed and acted. If someone in a 3 piece suit delivers your car, that's less insulting.
- chrisseaton 8y agoHow else would you deliver a car? Not sure what point you're trying to make?
- losteric 8y agoTruck?
- chrisseaton 8y agoPut the car on a truck and then drive the truck? Might as well just drive the car?
- awad 8y agoThe beautiful thing about trucks is...you can put _multiple_ cars on the truck.
- sjwright 8y agoHandy if you're buying multiple cars.
- awad 8y agoJust think of it as Uber Pool/Lyft Line wherein one car goes to your house, and another goes to someone else's house.
- MertsA 8y agoEh... Delivering multiple cars over a short distance by loading them up on a flatbed or car hauler just doesn't make any sense. Tow trucks will always be more expensive than calling a taxi. Especially given that this is basically a textbook example of the travelling salesman problem. And I don't mean computing a route is hard, I just mean that in practice while there's overlap between destinations for a sparse set of e.g. 10 destinations spread evenly over some area around a hub it's not like being able to go between destinations directly makes it 10x shorter. Trucks are expensive to maintain and operate, much more so than a regular passenger car. Trucks also can't deliver as easily or to as many places as a person driving it. If someone lives down a dead end road that's extremely inconvenient for the truck whereas it's a non-issue for someone driving. Car haulers don't make sense for sparse local deliveries.
- matwood 8y agoI know someone who had a huge problem with Tesla over this. The issue was the Tesla contract wanted my friend to take ownership of the car, and thus responsibility as soon as it left Tesla. For obvious reasons, that's not something anyone should do. They had quite a bit of back and forth until Tesla changed the wording. I'm not sure if they did it universally though. Then Tesla registered the car improperly and took months to correct. Most Tesla owners I talk to say the same thing, they love the car and hate everything else about dealing with Tesla. I can't imaging removing dealerships is going to make this any better with customers.