Once the car is fully autonomous, the process of dispatching rides to a pickup location will be controlled by Tesla.
But if that's the case, then I will not pay thousands of dollars to own one.
But if that's the case, then I will not pay thousands of dollars to own one.
Even if there would be no damages, imagine getting your car back to go somewhere with your family and it smells like a bad kind of party.
No I won't. It's simple economics that I won't.
Assuming a future where I can choose to rent my car's free time to a ride sharing app. You just told me that I'd be able to make just as much money locked into a single customer as I would if different customers had to compete to rent my car's free time.
And yes blah blah blah I could buy a different type of car. But market forces don't break this sort of monsopoly until "what app can I rent my car's time to" is the TOP purchase differentiator to a very sizable portion of auto buyers.
And we'v not covered that the dynamics are different. With Tesla you're not paying for fuel. Or for human time. You literally earn money while you do something else. This means that, over time, Uber and Lyft would be saturated by Teslas because it's a race to the bottom in terms of profit.
No, I'm not. I'm assuming that in the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12753624 you're comparing between the choice of only being able to drive for Tesla's app vs being able to choose which app to drive for.
If you're not, I don't understand what you meant to say to the post you replied to.