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Ok, I see. You've basically described a business model that is completely non-viable. The overhead of owning the car, getting it to you, then getting it back
by mdorazio 7y ago
Ok, I see. You've basically described a business model that is completely non-viable. The overhead of owning the car, getting it to you, then getting it back to a central hub would force the price past a point people in your situation are willing to pay. Remote control is not much cheaper than having an actual driver in terms of operating cost (they need to be close enough that latency is not an issue), and much more expensive in terms of hardware, software, and liability insurance.
You'd have to price the service high enough to cover at least an additional $50k in hardware, software, and data per vehicle, lowest minimum wage within 500 miles for the time required to get it to and from you, vehicle operating costs for the distance to get it to and from you, and added insurance because few companies are going to say remote control driving is safe. There's also the regulatory component since I don't think most places allow remote driving.
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoFor me it’s competing with leasing a car. If it can be cheaper than that I’d consider it. But yeah, perhaps I’m overestimating the cost of real drivers