Comment by tgv
3 years ago
It's not only off topic, it's also wildly unrealistic (IMO). 1$/day may seem little, but that's for middle-class US standards, and it gets proportionally worse when you realize many people make more than one trip per day. What incentive do you have for people to pay that amount?
With self-driving cars, you don't have to own cars anymore. That $1 per day frees your $5.000 per year budget for owning a car.
No one is going to rent you a car for $1/ride, self driving or not in fact I doubt you could rent a bike for that much. Even if you eliminate the driver from the equation, you still have to pay for the value of the car, wear and tear, and fuel/electricity to run it. The $1 on top is an extremely optimistic cost of a self driving software only.
Let me put it this way - it would already be cheaper for me to just take an Uber to work than own my car. And yet, I(and I imagine most people will too) prefer to own my car.
A short taxi ride costs much, much more than 1$.