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boredumb
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Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in...
The $250,000 SF taxi medallions?
lotsofpulp
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Assuming it is $250k one time purchase, it seems cheaper than annual pay for a person to drive around SF, and the overhead to manage the person.
asdff
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You still have overhead to manage your fleet of self driving cars. They aren't self repairing, self fueling, and self cleaning yet.
colinmhayes
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Cheaper than having individuals manage their own cars.
astrange
on Feb 2, 2022
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The Uber trick is that people don't understand how much it costs to own a car, so riders get to extract money from overinvested drivers.
adrr
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Let’s assume you get a loan for 30 years on it for 6%. That is $18k a year. What is labor? $50k a year?
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