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All of these maintenance issues exist with regular taxi fleets driving equivalent miles, though. The main difference is the taxi driver salary vs the cost of th

All of these maintenance issues exist with regular taxi fleets driving equivalent miles, though. The main difference is the taxi driver salary vs the cost of the self-driving tech plus some support and extra interior cameras and this should be in favor of self-driving cars. From the customer's point of view, self-driving cars might be slower but safer.

breput 5y ago
It depends on who owns, maintains, and is paying for the vehicle and license/medallion to operate. The whole system - whether Uber/Lyft drivers who "relied on their unfamiliarity with capital depreciation calculations"[1] or traditional cabbies who, let's be honest is not a glamorous job, is tenuous at best. Cutting out the lowest cost factors and replacing them with technology and also incurring the fleet costs doesn't really seem like a great business. [1] https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more