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I forsee the cost of travel increasing quite a lot. Private cars will end up 2nd class citizens with 'waymo lanes' and sky high insurance costs, pushing everyo
by londons_explore 9mo ago
I forsee the cost of travel increasing quite a lot.
Private cars will end up 2nd class citizens with 'waymo lanes' and sky high insurance costs, pushing everyone to self driving taxi services who have a really high cost per mile compared to your own car, since they have a huge debt to pay back to investors so will never get down to the $0.15 per mile that driving your own old car costs.
- tim-fan 9mo agoOn the other hand, insurance costs for robotaxis should be lower if they are able to drive significantly safer. Then the one I'm more interested / excited for: optimizing the fleet for the cargo. If most trips involve single passengers, then most cars can be small electric single seaters. This can further reduce insurance costs as well as fuel, maintenance and depreciation. I'd hope that's enough to offset the price of the sensors, compute hardware, and engineers to maintain the system. But yes paying back investors; not sure how long that would lead to elevated costs for riders.
- mekdoonggi 9mo agoIf the cars are commodity, wouldn't someone make a ton of money by making a cheaper/better model and undercutting? Seems implausible but then there are examples like deepseek.
- longitudinal93 9mo agoIf only they could be sold in the US https://insideevs.com/news/710364/byd-detroit-import-seagull-caresoft/ https://insideevs.com/news/710364/byd-detroit-import-seagull...
- mekdoonggi 9mo agoI definitely see a future where global transportation is powered by driverless Chinese EVs, except the US, which has driverless cars that are worse and 6x more expensive.
- londons_explore 9mo ago[delayed]