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| May 30, 2019 at 1:37 | comment | added | Cyn | @user4574 Thanks. I didn't have answers for the tech end so I concentrated on what I was familiar with. I'm glad you found it helpful. And ha ha there is a badge if you give an answer with at least 10 upvotes that has at least twice as many upvotes as the accepted answer. If only there were a badge for having an accepted answer with a fraction of the upvotes of other answers. I'd have about a dozen at this point. :-) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 23:18 | vote | accept | user4574 | ||
| May 29, 2019 at 23:18 | comment | added | user4574 | Your answer was the most useful because it addressed my over-optimistic assumptions on the pricing. Other answers said the technical challenges were too great, but its just a failure of imagination... network latency is too big (but round trip is 150ms with LEO satellites). Needs too much bandwidth (solved with lots of satellites, which Elon Musk is already launching for me with Multi-Tbps total bandwith). AI could do xyz better (yes but level-5 AI doesn't exist yet so its a moot point). Weather and tunnels (good point, but one can still use the system most of the time). | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:34 | comment | added | Cyn | For example, my family of 3 makes a car trip every year, about 8-9 hours each way, depending on traffic. We prefer to have our car so we can carry stuff with us and also for short local trips where we stay. But how nice if we didn't have to drive. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:31 | comment | added | Cyn | @user4574 Agreed. Those new rates seem a lot more reasonable. Though making a reservation for a longer drive could be a deal. You'd want to be competitive with the alternative, which is flying then renting a car. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:29 | comment | added | Cyn | @user4574 Yes, though it can be done completely seamlessly if the occupants of the car need bathroom or stretching breaks or the car needs fuel or charging. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:29 | comment | added | user4574 | You might be right about the price of 3 dollars per hour not being high enough. But I could raise the price quite a bit and still beat local taxi or Uber rates. Taxis or Uber charge few dollars a mile, so that could easily add up to be 60 to 100 dollars per hour on the highway. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:23 | comment | added | user4574 | Shift changes and brakes don't have to be a problem for the remote drivers. You can either set the system up so that another person can switch in live without even stoping. Or if that's not safe enough then the driver could just message the occupants of the car that they need to switch, and then find a safe place to pull over. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 1:20 | comment | added | user4574 | I agree. Just having the users pay by the hour, or having a certain number of hours per month is better than having 2 hours per day. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 15:26 | history | answered | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |