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> Precisely - highly restricted demo neighborhoods. This USA is a massive country. 1. IDK why anyone would spend the money to do driverless everywhere in the
by ke88y 3y ago
> Precisely - highly restricted demo neighborhoods. This USA is a massive country.
1. IDK why anyone would spend the money to do driverless everywhere in the USA. You can get to 30% of the population and by far the most profitable taxi markets by going one metro at a time. Even just the major metros in the sunbelt would print insane amounts of money.
2. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the time to go from one metro to N metros in not N*(lifetime of waymo). Ie, the hard part is done. The product has made it to market, at least in the sunbelt, and the poo-poo attitude about being able to go anywhere in the Phoenix metro without a driver is a pretty amazing dismissal.
- giobox 3y ago> You can get to 30% of the population and by far the most profitable taxi markets by going one metro at a time. Even just the major metros in the sunbelt would print insane amounts of money. When this actually happens, then we can discuss Waymo's "landing". This is all hypothetical today. It's not about traversing the whole USA - its about serving more than a handful of customers in demo areas, relatively speaking. Waymo has never done this to date. I'm not disputing Waymo could go somewhere - it might! It hasn't so far.