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Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by rootusrootus on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:50PM (#39423781)
> which would unlock 3x utility of existing fleet via owners lending their car to rideshare

I still don't understand why anyone ever thought that was going to happen. Even if the autonomy were there, who was really going to use their car for rideshare when they didn't need it themselves? I know some people thought it would bring them a lot of value, because that's what Elon promised. But the reality would have been a classic race-to-the-bottom, and they'd have been lucky to break even after accounting for wear and tear.

Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by pests on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:15PM (#39424031)
It will be awesome when your own car pulls up at 8am to take you to work and there's vomit and trash everywhere, spilled drinks, dirty shoes, stale vape smoke lingering in the air.

Sure there might be rules and fines but people already do all this when there is real human driving the taxi!

Plus, do you really expect everyone to treat your items with the same respect and care you do? Even little things like slamming the doors or scratching up the seats with metal belts or jean studs.

Yeah maybe Tesla will make it right. But at how much effort? How correct will it be fixed?

Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by coffeebeqn on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:11PM (#39425211)
And used condoms lol. Maybe a company like Uber would do that and then hose the insides after each day
Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by pests on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:32PM (#39425322)
Hose the insides? Lmao.

I wonder at what price point you would have to offer the average Tesla owner to let someone puke in their car.

Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by throwup238 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:42PM (#39425387)
That's the Musk new car smell you're thinking of.
Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by pests on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:47PM (#39425421)
Ha. What a fitting username also!
Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by electrondood on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:35AM (#39427078)
Does this currently happen with Airbnb? No.
Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by Staple_Diet on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:18AM (#39427638)
You mean this Airbnb; https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-using-ai-to-help-clampdown-on...

Or this Airbnb; https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-family-home-emptied-tras...

Or maybe it's one of these; https://duckduckgo.com/?q=airbnb+trashed+house&t=fpas&ia=web

I acknowledge the above comment re vomit in car is an edge case, and so are the links I attached. But to suggest this doesn't occur in Airbnb, and wouldn't occur with a car share service is naive.

Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by JoshTko on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:55PM (#39423850)
It's not so much most regular people would do rideshare that much. It's more that every new Tesla sold after L4 was achieved would be bought by small biz folks, Uber, etc. specifically to use for rideshare and would pay a premium for both the car and for FSD software.