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Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by danans on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @07:32PM (#38715635)
> It will start in cities with people declining to purchase new cars since they can just take a cheap self-driving car everywhere

Wouldn't Uber/Lyft have already sopped up whatever demand exists for that? If anything Waymo is going to take that business away.

Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by jessriedel on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:56AM (#38722084)
I'm including Uber and Lyft in "taxi", i.e., driving service on demand. Replacing a personal car with Uber and Lyft is too expensive for most people, and the basic economic reason is that a human driver must be paid. But in a few years self-driving taxis will be cheaper than taxis with human drivers. At that point, a larger and larger share of the population will stop buying cars and will just take self-driving taxis.