California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by ubernostrum on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:37PM (#16174193)

You will just hail one for less than the cost of gas.

If the cost of the ride is less than the cost of gas, how is the operator making a profit? Especially since they have to cover more than just the cost of gas.

(an Uber-style "use VC money to subsidize below-cost services" model is not sustainable in the long term, by the way)

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by sah2ed on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:47AM (#16174982)

In addition to closeparen's point that such autonomous cars will be electric, they will also have much lower mantenance costs due to the lower internal complexity of doing away with the ICE.

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by CPLX on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:57AM (#16176706)

This is self evidently true because incredibly complex software implementations that interact with the real world have no maintainance requirements.

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by abritinthebay on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:00PM (#16182828)

... hoping sarcasm. But you never know on here...

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by closeparen on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:08PM (#16174350)

I think the point is that they’ll be electric.

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