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> You realize that the whole point of self driving taxis is that they are cheaper to run than regular taxis, and that's how they will compete right?

Longterm that will be true if there is substantial competition between driverless car providers (since it requires very significant that won’t necessarily be the case).

Otherwise these companies will just keep their margins high and charge only slightly below what a car driven by a person costs.

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> keep their margins high and charge only slightly below what a car driven by a person costs

So you mean like, "the whole point of self-driving taxis is that they are cheaper to run, ... and that's how they will compete?"

You're trying to convince yourself too hard that you disagree with the previous comment.

There will probably be a bit of both: using the margin to seriously undercut the taxis and ubers in order to drive them out, and then raise prices.

> too hard

Why would you say that? I wasn’t trying that hard at all.

It just seemed that you were implying that they will be significantly cheaper for consumers which is not at all obvious at this point.

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