A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Driving Car Future

Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by Supermancho on Sunday November 17, 2019 @02:48PM (#21559647)

> We're not talking about rideshares, we're talking about autonomous personal vehicles

> they'll just have self-driving ones.

That won't last long, because of market inefficiency. Why pay for maintenance and energy on a vehicle? It's just as unrealistic as saying we'll keep personal vehicles running on gasoline, to me.

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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by leetcrew on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:08PM (#21560056)

people who can afford it value exclusive ownership of an item. a good example is the vacation home. it's possible to defray the cost of ownership of the second home by a lot if you are willing to rent it out to others while you aren't using it, but most people don't seem to do this. [0]

I suspect that unless it gets banned outright, wealthy people will be happy to pay whatever it costs to guarantee strangers can't leave a bad smell in the vehicle that takes them to work.

[0] only about 30%, according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/12/study-mor...

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