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What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

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Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I despise the whole sharing economy. I prefer the good old days where i own everything i use.

"Ownership", like "privacy", just doesn't make sense in the modern complex world.

Is this satire or sarcasm or something? Genuinely asking, as it is not clear to me.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#32
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With 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.

Ah yes, artificial artificial intelligence.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#33
post #26

With 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.

Would probably do a considerably better job than actual autonomous driving for the foreseeable future too.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#34

I 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.

My understanding was that congestion on highways is mostly caused by bad drivers.

A train isn’t affected by people randomly braking or weaving around different lanes because they lack driving skill. A train also isn’t as affected by inclement weather.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

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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.

I would compare it with the apps on my iPhone like Netflix.

Netflix isn't on your phone. The app is a portal to their servers & content. If all of the hardware & software is already in the car, which you bought, then they are renting your car back to you. There is no marginal increase increase in their own costs. You already "own" everything needed to make it work. This is more like having an iPhone with a bunch of videos you already purchased downloaded on to it and then having to pay a fee to watch them.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#37

I 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…

I guess you're talking about a physical, actual train, but it would be cool to tack onto the back of a conga line of cars, and let some AI take over maintaining the gap and alignment with the vehicle in front, while grabbing a nap.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#38
post #26

With 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.

Ah yes, artificial artificial intelligence.

Ask yes, exploited human intelligence.

Though also, at the same time the liability questions would quickly become... Complicated.... With that model

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#39
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I already hate not being able to repair my phone, own my music/movies, etc.

I own my home so that I can do what I want with it, and I own my car so that I can take it off road, leave my stuff in it, and work on it.

Rental services are bland as fuck. I can organize my music and movies way better than Spotify and Netflix so that it meets my exact preferences.

No. I don't want to live in the rental economy future, and I find it hard to relate to those that do.

Re: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

#40
post #26

With 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.

latency might be an issue though
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