Comment by trollbridge

1 day ago

If they didn’t have human drivers, they’d have one less human to exploit per ride.

That's true, I guess possibly they figured out that humans using their own vehicles turn out to be cheaper than contracting or owning self-driving vehicles.

  • Uber is regularly offering 50¢/mile trips now (which they charge significantly more than that to the rider for). There's no way an autonomous vehicle is going to get operating costs that low anytime soon.

    • Considering the IRS mileage rate is 72.5 cents per mile, sounds like there's no way any kind of vehicle is going to get operating costs that low!