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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.