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How does it have more potential? I don't know how much taxi drivers earn in the US but let's pick a random number like 50k USD per year. If Waymo hardware costs
by imtringued 2y ago
How does it have more potential? I don't know how much taxi drivers earn in the US but let's pick a random number like 50k USD per year. If Waymo hardware costs $10k but Tesla costs $2k, then the savings are $40k for Waymo in the first year and $48k for Tesla. That is a 20% increase in the worst case for Waymo and the longer the vehicle lasts or the higher the taxi driver salary, the worse it gets for Tesla. Their potential is heavily bounded and gets worse over time.
- hackernewds 2y agoNot to mention, Tesla might not be able to do it at all. Plus a driver that makes magnitudes less mistakes, is punctual, doesn't sue, doesn't rest, or is a liability is worth much more than $50k. The human component though we could argue whether humans are meant to be driving cars full time putting themselves and others at human error risk