Re:Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars
by ceejayoz on Monday September 14, 2015 @12:28PM
(#10215894)
Or you can have it do useful tasks. Have a car fleet that's passenger-only during peak times, but couriers packages/freight during its downtime.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars
by peatmoss on Monday September 14, 2015 @05:08PM
(#10217472)
This is an excellent point. 95% idle rate of vehicle fleet is a huge opportunity frontier for businesses. Whoever figures out how to capitalize most on this is going to win big. I don't think it's an accident that Uber has been experimenting with hauling other kinds of things in its cars.
I think it's possible we may see a time when most vehicles stay in the network, and rarely need to sit idle. That would be ideal certainly!