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Networks of expensive, self-driving cars need a wide base of paying riders, which could make Uber essential to Tesla’s success.

  • LughAEnglish
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    9 天前

    A lot like Uber, in other words. But replicating a ride-hailing network with a 14-year head start will be no easy feat, especially considering the scale Uber has achieved.

    I don’t get the logic here. If you have The fleet of robotaxis, it seems the software to run them it’s the easy part. Loads of competitors to Uber have equally good software. The bottle neck here is the supply of robo-taxis. The journalist writing this has also ignored the fact cheap Chinese cars will probably be what will dominate this space ultimately.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      8 天前

      The software won’t necessarily be the easy part: if Uber built theirs in-house over the course of a few years then they’re not going to license it to their competitors. If there’s some third-party dev who built this for like Lyft or so, then maybe

      I didn’t hit on the Byd fleet until you mentioned it, but yeah, it’s gonna be a million cheap cars with easy-swap parts made in Tijuana and exported up under a Trump Trade loophole. Good point.