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Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by chrisseaton on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:29PM (#19277479)
How else would you deliver a car? Not sure what point you're trying to make?
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by camel_gopher on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:16PM (#19277656)
You would download it, obviously
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by losteric on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:36PM (#19277498)
Truck?
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by chrisseaton on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:56PM (#19277584)
Put the car on a truck and then drive the truck? Might as well just drive the car?
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by awad on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:56PM (#19278014)
The beautiful thing about trucks is...you can put _multiple_ cars on the truck.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by MertsA on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:50AM (#19278665)
Eh... Delivering multiple cars over a short distance by loading them up on a flatbed or car hauler just doesn't make any sense. Tow trucks will always be more expensive than calling a taxi. Especially given that this is basically a textbook example of the travelling salesman problem. And I don't mean computing a route is hard, I just mean that in practice while there's overlap between destinations for a sparse set of e.g. 10 destinations spread evenly over some area around a hub it's not like being able to go between destinations directly makes it 10x shorter. Trucks are expensive to maintain and operate, much more so than a regular passenger car. Trucks also can't deliver as easily or to as many places as a person driving it. If someone lives down a dead end road that's extremely inconvenient for the truck whereas it's a non-issue for someone driving.

Car haulers don't make sense for sparse local deliveries.

Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by sjwright on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:10AM (#19278338)
Handy if you're buying multiple cars.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by awad on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:46AM (#19278654)
Just think of it as Uber Pool/Lyft Line wherein one car goes to your house, and another goes to someone else's house.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by isostatic on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:05AM (#19278963)
How many cars do you buy at the same time?!
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by auiya on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:16AM (#19280748)
And increase risk of road damage/wear in transit, which likely wouldn't be caught on initial inspection during handover.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by emiliobumachar on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:25AM (#19279586)
There's something intangible about being the first to drive a new car. Doesn't make any logical sense, but there is.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:10PM (#19286544)
You will never be the first driver of a car, even if it comes straight from the factory to your front door. Every car gets test driven after assembly before it gets sent out, though they might not have the odometer turned on.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by alex_hitchins on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:15AM (#19279811)
Surely all cars have been pre-driven, even if in the factory.
Re:$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now by drewmol on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:06AM (#19281931)
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