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Originally Posted by accord1999
And the biggest cut of the driver's share ends up going to pay for the car. Which Uber has to pay for if it owns its own cars.
Which would also apply to your privately owned autonomous car.
Only if the 9 other people have the exact same start and destination. Otherwise, based on the experiences of taxi and Uber drivers, the car actually drives much more to deliver 9 people to their destinations, with such cars typically spend half or more their actual driving distances empty with no passengers, which ends up reducing the life of such cars much more rapidly.
But when you have your own car, you don't have to pay yourself. That's what TAAS has to compete against, and why autonomous privately owned cars will annihilate TAAS.
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That's not true if Scale and efficiency attained, which should be very simple with computer algorithms. There's no reason a service Car would be riding more empty than full. If adoption rates are high there's a pick up close to every drop off.