Sounds like a steal for perfect Level 5 autonomy. That’s about the price of hiring someone to drive you for close to minimum wage.
But for advanced cruise control? Pass.
What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
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#22If I can watch videos or sleep behind the wheel, 8.5 sounds reasonable to me.
How about to use the internet? Or to use the smartphone you already paid for? Attempts at renting your own hardware back to you should be rejected on sight.
They're going to charge you for connectivity as well.
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#24I just wish we would bring back car trains. I like driving. I want to drive. There are some incredible roads in the places I go to, and I want to drive on them. However, I don’t care much for the long motorway drives through Europe that I need to do to take me to the interesting places. I want to drive my car on to a train in Kraków, hang out in the restaurant for several hours, and then drive off the train in Gdańsk. Surely this is cheaper and safer than autonomous driving anyway?
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#26With that pricepoint, maybe you don't need to implement actual autonomous driving, but instead it could be implemented by employing millions of dronepilots in some far away country that drive your car for you.
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#27I just wish we would bring back car trains. I like driving. I want to drive. There are some incredible roads in the places I go to, and I want to drive on them. However, I don’t care much for the long motorway drives through Europe that I need to do to take me to the interesting places. I want to drive my car on to a train in Kraków, hang out in the restaurant for several hours, and then drive off the train in Gdańsk…
The density doesn’t make sense. Imagine all the congestion on highways, instead you are on a rail road line.
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#28I would rather pay someone to hack my car so I don't have to pay per hour.
What if it crashes into someone, wouldn't you be responsible then?
I am pretty sure you are regardless of the hack. If your Tesla hits someone your at fault not Tesla. Laws would have to change a lot for that not to be the case. In that world, do I even need car insurance or is volkswagen liable? If you're talking ethically, you have a point.
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#29I would rather pay someone to hack my car so I don't have to pay per hour.
What if it crashes into someone, wouldn't you be responsible then?
Actually if the $8.5 per hour subscription shifts the responsibility in accidents from the driver to Volkswagen, it becomes worth it. But I doubt it will do. I think you will still be responsible to take over very quickly despite not being focused on driving.
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#30If you don't have to also buy the car, this might be reasonable
I despise the whole sharing economy. I prefer the good old days where i own everything i use.
Maybe that's just not the resource efficient way going forward. Maybe in the future people will laugh at the idea of buying 2 tons of steel to sit around doing nothing for 95% of it's lifetime.