How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business

Re:How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a... by bigfudge on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:12AM (#40520622)

I think you’re wrong about most of the scenarios on your list. And once the market is mature, I can imagine it would be great to be picked up in a minivan after a days cycling somewhere new and not on a loop route.

Americans have become emotionally attached to cars because of what they enable them to do. That might take a while to die. But in Europe cars are more of a pita to own and run because we have less space. I don’t have any great love for mine. As soon as waymo gets here and is reasonably priced I’ll get rid of my car.

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Re:How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a... by codexb on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:12PM (#40526156)

Yeah, Americans just have more space, and America is just far larger, and Americans often do relatively long road trips to places where other modes of transportation are not possible or prohibitively expensive. I don't think that is ever going to die, nor should it.

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