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What makes you think they would be cheaper?
by JunkDNA 12y ago
What makes you think they would be cheaper?
- jey 12y agoCosts would at least be lower, which at least opens the possibility of it becoming cheaper. Sure, it's possible to conceive of a dystopic scenario where GooUber has such a monopoly that they can just keep prices arbitrarily high and disconnected from costs, but I think that's pretty unlikely.
- scep12 12y agoIt seems hard to say for sure that costs will be lower. The cost of a fully-autonomous/self-driving car is still unknown. Even if google is currently at the 90%, it's well-known that the last 10% is always the hardest. That last bit is especially important when you consider the consequences of imperfection in this venue.
- carlosrt 12y agoHe might be implying that the cost to rent a car, for 30 minutes, twice a day, would be cheaper than owning an, idle, car 24 hours a day. Or, sharing the ride with three other commuters could bring the total cost of ownership to ~15 minutes per day.
- jey 12y agoI meant that the incremental cost of paying a human driver would be gone. The fixed cost of inventing and developing the self-driving technology would be minimal because it is amortized across all self-driving cars.
- awda 12y agoFewer accidents drives down the insurance costs.
- aspiringdev 12y agobut the cost of the vehicle increases, which would have an unhappy effect on premiums.
- drgath 12y agoAll of that extra cost was R&D, which is currently being funded by Google's advertising. While I have no idea what Google's business model will eventually be with self-driving cars, at the end of the day it's just software and some cameras that can be mass-installed on most any car. While the cost will initially be higher, it likely won't be much, and will eventually be negligible.
- awda 12y agoI'm not sure the sensors are negligable...
- sadris 12y agolower insurance. no salary.
- sadris 12y agolower insurance. no salary.
- sadris 12y agolower insurance. no salary.
- sadris 12y agolower insurance. no salary.