Electric cars do require much less maintenance, but 8K a year would barely pay for someone to keep the windshield wiper fluid topped off much less the kind of issues that would pop up in a fleet of 15k vehicles.
I wonder what would happen to traffic with 15,000 extra vehicles within the city limits. Something tells me it won’t relieve congestion or make the streets any safer.
But it would make a couple of vulture capitalists a lot of money.
I mean, even on top of maintenance the entire system is basically just on rails, it has to be mapped out manually, every car has a ‘guy in the chair’ that can control the car remotely if necessary, they also got guys in unmarked vans that follow the driverless cars in case of emergency, and on top of that every car is constantly collecting data and that storage is insane, all of that falls under operational costs completely independent of maintenance issues
Cuz the way they’re running the company is going to get somebody killed, which I know because I also worked at another self-driving car company that did. I was excited by the technology because of its potential, but it’s clear that the only capacity it will be allowed to exist at this point is basically exactly what the op was asking for, a trendy expensive alternative to public transit that also serves you Google ads
Cuz the way they’re running the company is going to get somebody killed
Aren’t Waymos already safer than regular drivers per mile?
which I know because I also worked at another self-driving car company that did
Cruise? 🪦
the only capacity it will be allowed to exist at this point is basically exactly what the op was asking for, a trendy expensive alternative to public transit that also serves you Google ads
Dang eh. Even if the tech improves (I assume it’s improving), you think it won’t be able to get on more roads due to regulation?
I worked for them for several years and $8,000 in operating costs per vehicle is utterly ridiculous
Electric cars do require much less maintenance, but 8K a year would barely pay for someone to keep the windshield wiper fluid topped off much less the kind of issues that would pop up in a fleet of 15k vehicles.
I wonder what would happen to traffic with 15,000 extra vehicles within the city limits. Something tells me it won’t relieve congestion or make the streets any safer.
But it would make a couple of vulture capitalists a lot of money.
I mean, even on top of maintenance the entire system is basically just on rails, it has to be mapped out manually, every car has a ‘guy in the chair’ that can control the car remotely if necessary, they also got guys in unmarked vans that follow the driverless cars in case of emergency, and on top of that every car is constantly collecting data and that storage is insane, all of that falls under operational costs completely independent of maintenance issues
Wouldn’t even cover the human fluids cleanup costs of 15,000 autonomous taxis
yeah it sounds like that dril tweet about needing help with his budget but for coming up with operating cost assumptions for a business plan
I found riding in a Waymo quite fascinating. Why did you quit?
Cuz the way they’re running the company is going to get somebody killed, which I know because I also worked at another self-driving car company that did. I was excited by the technology because of its potential, but it’s clear that the only capacity it will be allowed to exist at this point is basically exactly what the op was asking for, a trendy expensive alternative to public transit that also serves you Google ads
Aren’t Waymos already safer than regular drivers per mile?
Cruise? 🪦
Dang eh. Even if the tech improves (I assume it’s improving), you think it won’t be able to get on more roads due to regulation?