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Looks like it has no trunk, which is a huge use case for self-driving cars. How many trips do you make just to move things around? How much of what you own woul
by beefman 12y ago
Looks like it has no trunk, which is a huge use case for self-driving cars. How many trips do you make just to move things around? How much of what you own would you rather rent if you could have it delivered within 15 minutes? Then there's the economics of prepared meal delivery... I'll be surprised if passengerless cars don't outnumber passenger cars in 20 years.
As for moving people, a significant part of city bus fares goes to driver salaries. And other vehicles tend to avoid buses / don't rely on making eye contact with bus drivers. And buses follow predefined routes. So it's surprising to me that Google is going for private cars instead of city buses as a first market.
- skriticos2 12y agoLooks like there is a bag compartment for had luggage where the dashboard normally is. The size of the thing does not suggest it's built for heavy lifting, I'm sure there will be models for that too.. maybe even the same with the passenger seats ripped out. When the car self-drives, you don't need the driver anymore to get stuff around. This really opens possibilities. The first prototype might not be the be-all-end-all thing, but it makes me confident that they don't try to design that on the first go.