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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by monkmartinez on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:53PM (#14196823)
The iPhone is how much to produce? Very important point you missed in what I wrote; Hardware and software package. A lidar without software is useless.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by joshuamorton on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:38PM (#14197222)
The price dropped from something ridiculous (~100K) to something manageable for a luxury car (~10K), and certainly reasonable as a cost offset by multiple consumers (like in a rideshare environment).
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by joshuamorton on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:59PM (#14198504)
So your argument went from "its economically infeasible" to "I don't like it!"?
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by monkmartinez on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @09:28PM (#14199781)
No... in addition to being prohibitively expensive, the other model being put forth to make it less expensive, ride-sharing, also has drawbacks which make the idea a non-starter for most Americans.

If ridesharing was awesome, we would see it now with luxury cars. We don't because it is stupid and will not reduce the price of the car dramatically enough to outweigh the negatives.

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