If you're only carrying 5 or 6 people an hour, that's 5 or 6 people who have to split the costs of an hour's worth of fuel & wear, plus the hour's wage for the driver.
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Kinda missing my point here: the push for automation there is because the business model isn't holding up when you have to pay wages for drivers in addition to the costs of operating and maintaining the vehicles
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not at all--just because drivers are too expensive to pay doesn't mean trying to run it with robots is any cheaper! it would only be cheaper if they were simultaneously as reliable as humans and cost less to maintain, which is far from being demonstrated
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nothing inevitable about it man, people said fusion power was inevitable but here we all are without it
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they assume that autonomous cars will a) work and b) be cheap if either assumption doesn't pan out, then Uber etc will never really be viable
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Yes, this comes up often here in VT but we don’t have the money or population, just an overabundance of Last Mile Problems.
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the last mile problem IS a lack of money/population
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