• TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      If it works. Don’t Teslas still have problems in his stupidass underground Vegas loop? And that’s pretty much as ideal driving conditions as you can get.

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      7 days ago

      Looks more like the number of cars will stay the same-ish, but now there won’t be a taxi driver making a living of it.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Wrong. The problem right now is low utilisation of cars. Most cars just sit around 90-95% of the day. A robotaxi would have much higher utilisation, therefore fewer cars are needed overall.

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            7 days ago

            Are you familiar with the concept of a taxi? Do you really think a taxi does not make more trips per day than a privately owned car?

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              7 days ago

              I think that this depends heavily on the success of that enterprise.

              I am pretty sure that they start (when / if they start) with a very high number of vehicles in a city.

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      7 days ago

      I also hope this can be a solution for people who need a car to live while reducing the number of individual cars, but I’m afraid Tesla is not really interested in reducing the number of cars.

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        7 days ago

        Robotaxis are NOT going to reduce the number of cars that are filling up the streets and parking spaces.

        They are replacing some of the traditional traffic while they carry passengers, and then they add more traffic when going home (or searching for a parking lot, or doing idle circles) after the ride, and when coming for the next passenger.