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Who here uses Tesla FSD? I finally got a Tesla after two of my friends nagged me to for years. And holy shit, the car drives itself. How does Tesla not have like 90% market share? Why are people still buying Fords and Volkswagens?
The government should be incentivizing the crap out of these. I asked Astra and it estimates the U.S. loses 0.9 QALY's per person due to vehicle accidents. We could probably reduce this by 50% at least just by rolling out FSD.
Haven't ridden in a Tesla with FSD in a while, but I have ridden in Waymos a number of times when visiting cities that have them. It's an impressively good experience IMO, though the price is not really noticeably lower than Uber etc. Naturally, supposedly super-progressive NYC (where I currently live) seems to be dragging their feet on approving them to operate here, while many redder cities seem to be much more enthusiastic about it.
I guess right now the situation serves everyone except the customer. Taxi unions and cities don’t complain about technological unemployment, Waymo pads its margins, and Uber and the other companies don’t have to borrow billions at high rates to finance self driving fleets to compete with each other in a race to the bottom (which would follow full deregulation and which would drive down margins precipitously).
Waymo wait times are IME very high during peak hours despite the prices they charge being not much different than Uber/Lyft. It's quite clear Waymo has a car shortage.
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