The real answer is that the RT will be bare bones. No floor carpet, no cushion seats. Just rubber flooring with gloss painted seats so that nothing sticks.Tesla will have an Optimus primed and ready to clean and detail every car after rides.
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The real answer is that the RT will be bare bones. No floor carpet, no cushion seats. Just rubber flooring with gloss painted seats so that nothing sticks.Tesla will have an Optimus primed and ready to clean and detail every car after rides.
Obviously, its not a big deal for a lot of people. I personally don't care. I've enjoyed the conversation sometimes - but kept mum at others. I don't think it will be a driving factor in adoption, one way or another.That will work awesome for people like you and me. The rest of the world loves to chit chat and get a personal touch (?)
Ofcourse it will reduce labor cost - just not make it zero. Its not expensive to get a few min wage workers clean the vehicles when they are charging.Which brings back part of the labor cost it was supposed to reduce, cutting away the profits.
Cleaning charges at Air B&B kill their business. Sometimes it is more than the rental charges if you are staying for just a day or two. Air BNB makes sense if you are going in a larger group and stay for a week or so ...That is one reason why I have never used Air BnB.
and each of these companies will have to have huge investments for the AV assets as well as the software platform and then fight to survive and ensure that they are not the dry leaves that get shaken off the tree.This is where individual RT companies can differentiate themselves from others. Better companies will have lots of places where the RTs will go to charge & get cleaned in every market.
Tipping is something we should just get used to adding to get the full price when comparing.How about privacy and no awkward conversations plus no pressure to tip and NO tipping at all. So you get a known point to point price.
Flufferbot?Is there any precedence for automation to have completely failed and people went back to manual labor ?
That in itself means they need to start with designated areas for pickup and dropoff, just like a bus stopFlufferbot?
I've soured quite a bit on the Robotaxi business model. Even Uber/Lyft replacement, which seemed like a slam dunk, is going to be a long road. There are just so many weird things with pickup/dropoff, parking lots, multi-stop, etc. that cause problems long after you've figured out how to drive safely and non-obnoxiously. And only Waymo is close to the latter.
Then you've got low utilization off-peak, which is about 70% of the time. Proponents talk about delivery, but that creates a whole new set of issues.
Uber/Lyft replacement is roughly a million car market. Call it 200k cars/year. 2nd/3rd car replacement is the big win, but real world Robotaxi costs are nowhere near being viable for that.
Flufferbot?
I've soured quite a bit on the Robotaxi business model. Even Uber/Lyft replacement, which seemed like a slam dunk, is going to be a long road. There are just so many weird things with pickup/dropoff, parking lots, multi-stop, etc. that cause problems long after you've figured out how to drive safely and non-obnoxiously. And only Waymo is close to the latter.
Then you've got low utilization off-peak, which is about 70% of the time. Proponents talk about delivery, but that creates a whole new set of issues.
Uber/Lyft replacement is roughly a million car market. Call it 200k cars/year. 2nd/3rd car replacement is the big win, but real world Robotaxi costs are nowhere near being viable for that.
ask loss prevention about thisDesire of the people to have standardized service.
I mean just look at automated checkouts. We are literally doing the work of checkout clerks without getting paid !
exactly, don't automate a way to deal with a problem. Remove it. Basic tenet of engineering.The real answer is that the RT will be bare bones. No floor carpet, no cushion seats. Just rubber flooring with gloss painted seats so that nothing sticks.
Why? They could do this to a human driver today? all the rules apply except the RT will have video."Kid" jumps on the hood of a Waymo (from inside the waymo).
Wonder if there will need to be regulation around this that limits liability for the AVs in this situation if this keeps up.
How many RT's carry guns and get road rage when their car is jumped on?Why? They could do this to a human driver today? all the rules apply except the RT will have video.
Right now only 9 but clearly EM is planning to roll that out in 12.6. Why do you think all the work on flamethrowers and very aggressive driving.How many RT's carry guns and get road rage when their car is jumped on?
Why? They could do this to a human driver today? all the rules apply except the RT will have video.
So then you are getting into the very rules that Asimov contemplatedYes but the human driver has self autonomy and can decide if they feel that their life is in danger and decide what to do (and can be tried and found not/ or guilty criminally). A rider in a RT has no self autonomy except for exiting the vehicle, which may be an even more dangerous situation to them.
To clarify as well, I'm wondering if there will be some framework that would allow the RT *specifically* in situations where it determines there is an extreme threat/danger associated with the disruption to continue regardless of the danger to others, or perhaps something as simple as a "gtfo" button inside the cars that the rider has to press would work to manage this while also shifting the liability to the rider.
To put it in less elegant terms, the robotaxi will sit patiently while someone tries to break in, the human driver likely wouldn't.
The car that can do it without an intervention 10000x in a row all times of day, with more traffic and in most types of weather. Also the car that is designed to not "fail immediately".And the winner is............
The one without a safety driver, duh.And the winner is............
A race winner is NOT determined by how many races they can run? It is determined by the clock and rules in that ONE race. Also it was just a "throw away" joke and a fun comparison. NOT to be taken literally.The car that can do it without an intervention 10000x in a row all times of day, with more traffic and in most types of weather. Also the car that is designed to in "fail immediately".