Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car

Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by treis on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:48PM (#16690995)

No one is going to clean/inspect cars after every ride. At best it will be once a day. More likely something like once a week or until someone complains.

Same thing with the car age. They aren't going to cycle new cars in every few years. At best, they are going to replace the interiors in that time frame.

It also doesn't account for the size of the car. People buy 4 seaters for the 10% (or whartever) of the time that they have passengers. Commuters will be perfectly fine with a 1 seater if they can order a bigger car when needed.

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by Animats on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:12AM (#16696023)

They aren't going to cycle new cars in every few years.

The auto rental industry does. The average holding time in the rental car industry is 13 months. Enterprise Holdings (Enterprise, Alamo, and National) owns over a million cars. Lots of companies talk about "transportation as a service". Those companies do it.

Among other things, they own enough parking spaces to park all those cars.

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by TheSoftwareGuy on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:01PM (#16691697)

I'm sure they could com up with removable upholstery (or upholstery covers) that they can clean separately and replace as often as needed. Its not a huge leap from floor mats and seat covers

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by pkaye on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:16PM (#16691842)

I was test driving a car this weekend and noticed the seat covers had some hidden zippers that would make it trivial to replace.

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by kgc on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:21PM (#16692836)

What car was it?

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by pkaye on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:07PM (#16694922)

I looked at a couple cars so don't remember exactly which. I think is was a Subaru Forester. I was sitting in the back seat checking things out and noticed a tiny line along the back of the driver seat. Turns out it was an internal zipper with the ends tucked near the bottom. It think if you pulled those up, the whole back flap of the seat cover opens up.

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Re:Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-d... by mavhc on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:21PM (#16691305)

Or share a car for 50% off the cost.

They're going to recycle the cars faster than today, because they'll be used for closer to 100% of the time, rather than 10% today.

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