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Sorry for the experience, but this is great comic material. LMAO. How clean will these cars be when they are fully automated? Funny to think Tesla wants you

Sorry for the experience, but this is great comic material. LMAO. How clean will these cars be when they are fully automated? Funny to think Tesla wants you to send your personal car off to a taxi fleet when not in use.

dymk 7y ago
Even when stuff like this happens, they're so incredibly rare, it's a non-issue. Accidents happen. Presumably in a fully-automated solution, you'll have the ability to report a car as "needs service".
- mijamo 7y ago
  After trying several free floating services, I can tell you this is definitely an issue.
zaroth 7y ago
Operating at scale means you have to get good at handling the corner cases. Whether it’s AirBnB or Uber or Tesla, shit happens and they need to be able to deal with it quickly and professionally. If cars getting dirty is the worst problem Tesla has with their Fleet, they would be doing pretty tremendously well at that point. At least you never need to worry about background checking the driver.
- fwip 7y ago
  I agree, dirty cars are the least of many problems that Tesla won't solve.
- madengr 7y ago
  Yeah, but it’s YOUR car getting dirty, not Teslas. Tesla wants your car to become part of the fleet when you are not driving it.
  - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
    That's adding a huge amount of wear and tear - what is the compensation for this?
    - lutorm 7y ago
      That you get paid for fleeting your car?
      - zaroth 7y ago
        Tesla claims up to $30k per year. You could easily just buy new seats and mats each year. I mean, you would theoretically be getting paid good money, your car is going to get dirty.
        SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
        That's a significant chunk of possibly passive change. For some reason I doubt it'll be that simple, but if it does work out to be a matter of cleaning it once in a while and doing some routine maintenance, that's more than enough money to convince people to quickly pay off their Tesla I'm sure. Buy a couple, and they pay for themselves!
        munk-a 7y ago
        I assume that their hope is that small companies will pop up that build up a fleet of cars and clean them in house - they'd basically just be the most disgusting part of running a taxi business.

dymk 7y ago

Even when stuff like this happens, they're so incredibly rare, it's a non-issue. Accidents happen. Presumably in a fully-automated solution, you'll have the ability to report a car as "needs service".

mijamo 7y ago
After trying several free floating services, I can tell you this is definitely an issue.

zaroth 7y ago

Operating at scale means you have to get good at handling the corner cases. Whether it’s AirBnB or Uber or Tesla, shit happens and they need to be able to deal with it quickly and professionally. If cars getting dirty is the worst problem Tesla has with their Fleet, they would be doing pretty tremendously well at that point. At least you never need to worry about background checking the driver.

fwip 7y ago
I agree, dirty cars are the least of many problems that Tesla won't solve.
madengr 7y ago
Yeah, but it’s YOUR car getting dirty, not Teslas. Tesla wants your car to become part of the fleet when you are not driving it.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  That's adding a huge amount of wear and tear - what is the compensation for this?
  - lutorm 7y ago
    That you get paid for fleeting your car?
    - zaroth 7y ago
      Tesla claims up to $30k per year. You could easily just buy new seats and mats each year. I mean, you would theoretically be getting paid good money, your car is going to get dirty.
      - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
        That's a significant chunk of possibly passive change. For some reason I doubt it'll be that simple, but if it does work out to be a matter of cleaning it once in a while and doing some routine maintenance, that's more than enough money to convince people to quickly pay off their Tesla I'm sure. Buy a couple, and they pay for themselves!
        munk-a 7y ago
        I assume that their hope is that small companies will pop up that build up a fleet of cars and clean them in house - they'd basically just be the most disgusting part of running a taxi business.