So, I've been thinking about Musk's "Robotaxi" event.
Essentially he gave a vaguely soonish timeframe for full self driving. The big win is that customers can just buy a fleet of these things and roll in the dough. Hire it out and make bank!
I have a few questions on how this is supposed to work.
1) How will it be different than Uber? Yes there's no person in the vehicle, but will that lower the cost enough to be worth it while still being high enough to allow profit on an autonomous vehicle?
2) All Tesla's that have been sold to this point were promised to have Full Self Driving for a decade now. Is that not true anymore? We need these new gull winged monstrosities to do it? What was all that $12,000 surcharge all these people paid for then?
3) If all I need is some money to purchase a "Robotaxi", why do they need my money? Why wouldn't Tesla just do it themselves? They have infinitely more capital than I do, so what's my money needed for? I mean, they own the booking software/access, the driving/navigation software, so what does my ownership add here?
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