Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans

Re:Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are s... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:37AM (#38009861)

If we're talking about Uber without self-driving, then the vast majority of costs are outside of Uber's hands. Even if they get their servers, payment processing, and customer support down to $0, it only helps the business model a mild amount.

On the other hand Waymo is paying enormous amounts to design systems and outfit their cars, and when that gets significantly cheaper the entire service gets significantly cheaper to provide. If they get those costs down then they're simply buying and running cars, which is much better than needing cars and drivers.

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Re:Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are s... by thfuran on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:46AM (#38009937)

But probably not better than just needing drivers who you can trick into providing cars.

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Re:Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are s... by fshbbdssbbgdd on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:09AM (#38010067)

If you start driving for Uber with some vehicle that’s extremely expensive to operate, like a Land Rover or something, maybe you’d lose money, but that’s not the norm. It’s common for Uber drivers to finance their vehicles by driving for Uber. This obviously only works if there is a surplus of value created by driving that vehicle for Uber. It’s not like independently wealthy people are subsidizing Uber by donating the equity of their cars. The cost of cars used by drivers is ultimately paid by customers, there is not some magic trick here.

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