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Curious why you think trucking would have a bigger societal impact? As to why Google et al. are aiming for passenger vehicles, there about 4 million semi trucks
by iepathos 4y ago
Curious why you think trucking would have a bigger societal impact? As to why Google et al. are aiming for passenger vehicles, there about 4 million semi trucks in the US and over 290 million passenger vehicles.
- adam_arthur 4y agoAnd whats the economic value of 1 mile driven per truck vs passenger vehicle? Cheaper truck transport also opens up more cost competitive manufacturing, factory placement. All of these will be highly deflationary. In a remote work world a large percentage of the workforce only has to travel for discretionary, not economic reasons.
- renewiltord 4y agoFor a venture, you want the value that you can capture to drive direction, not all the externalities and I think with trucking that's small. It makes sense for the US Gov, just not for Google.