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Better yet, would you trade ads and impulse buys for free rides? So you never have to own a car, but every time you go anywhere your car is actively trying to
by DanielBMarkham 13y ago
Better yet, would you trade ads and impulse buys for free rides?
So you never have to own a car, but every time you go anywhere your car is actively trying to get you to spend time and money doing things you normally wouldn't do -- play online games, visit donut shops, and so on. Would that be worth never having to own a car?
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoThat actually sounds like a brilliant angle for selling an automated car service. "Our cars will take you wherever for a dime! To make up the difference we will be playing ads and/or having you partake in surveys during the ride." Sounds cool if you live in a city particularly.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoNope. Most of the personal benefit of not having to drive would be that I could do other things with my time. If I've got to be doing something I don't like anyway, then that defeats much of the point.
- GhotiFish 13y agoConsider that such base manipulation would be used primarily on the poor.
- ericcumbee 13y agoI think it is a very long way down the road before the poor start getting self driving cars.
- maxerickson 13y agoIf they work well they should be a more efficient use of capital than a normal car (higher utilization, better adherence to maintenance schedules, etc). That creates an opportunity for per mile charges to be cheaper than owning a car. (they should obviously be some combination of more profitable and cheaper than a taxi service...)
- egypturnash 13y agoSelf-driving short-term rentals ala Zipcar or Car2Go?
- greeneggs 13y agoGoogle's patented this idea; see, e.g., http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/google-patents-ad-powered-taxi-service-that-would-offer-free-rides-to-shoppers/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/google-patents-ad-pow...