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If speed is your only concern, why not hire a helicopter? Oh, because cost is also a concern so we can't just look at what's "faster"? Rats.
by Mawr 10mo ago
If speed is your only concern, why not hire a helicopter? Oh, because cost is also a concern so we can't just look at what's "faster"? Rats.
- defrost 10mo agoWhy hire a helicopter when one can just be bought outright? https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/mining-billionaire-chris-ellison-lands-permit-to-take-chopper-to-office-20240606-p5jjwa.html https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/mining... Permitting can be a bitch though: https://www.afr.com/property/residential/rinehart-s-loses-bid-for-helipad-at-pink-themed-hq-20251209-p5nm6r https://www.afr.com/property/residential/rinehart-s-loses-bi... so there's a reason not to.
- rangestransform 10mo agothis is the west, we can afford to spend more marginally on transportation to: - have a financial and physical barrier between the riffraff and paying customers - spend less total money (for real, the cost of second ave subway alone is about 1/3 the market cap of waymo) - sit down in comfort with door-to-door air conditioning - go faster wheverever the density justifies, autonomy will make "dollar van"-style minibuses financially viable too, since unionized drivers have made full-sized buses a money pit