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What's your definition of "required". I usually don't tip ride share drivers
you should
Why?
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#242It will pay for itself if you spend >300$ per month. I personally wish Waymo have a 399$ per month subscription that give 2 free ride per day so I don't need to own a car just for work.
I imagine that is where society is headed. No one owns a car and most people pay for a subscription to an autonomous taxi.
Never. Only rich urban centers is this possible.
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That sounds more expensive than just owning a car.
Depends where you live. In SF, parking alone is more than $300/mo if you have to pay for a spot. Also, many companies subsidize Waymo rides for employees as part of their commuter benefits.
> Also, many companies subsidize Waymo rides for employees as part of their commuter benefits.
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I kind of assumed the car would be locked (from the outside)? Like most regular cars have the option to.
Do you think sitting inside you will be protected if someone has a gun?
Obviously the Waymo Premier service should also include a nice handgun with the car.
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Yeah, that seems like an odd factor to include. The whole message of fines is supposed to be "don't do these specific anti-social things" not "be sure to factor in the arbitrary charges you'll be hit with".
You'd be surprised at how many people will only see the latter. When they introduced congestion pricing in NYC, there were actually people who were commenting, completely unironically, along the lines of "There's no way I'm going to pay that, I'll just take the train. That'll show em!" They 100% saw the fee as solely a means to tax residents, and didn't even consider that the primary purpose could be to change behavi…
I saw some wildly ignorant videos on YouTube of objectively wealthy people complaining about needing to driving (a few blocks!) to 59th Street to visit a relative, but needing to pay the congestion fee. I think these people have no idea how insulated there are from the Real World.
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I can only get 1-2 years out of tires, but I also drive 25K+ miles a year. (And its a heavy EV Van) Tires are $800ish a set for the affordable ones (also due to heavy van) Cabin air filter is twice a year at $18 a filter (I replace them as soon as it smells weird) Home electricity is cheap at least. (7¢/kw)
The increased frequency of tire changes for EVs is not something I realized when I bought an EV. Those batteries are heavy, and put a lot of extra wear on the tires.
Another factor is that brake-regen is putting additional stress on two tires if it is a single motor car. So they get a lot of workout accel/regen if you aren't using your brakes as often and driving economically to regen as much power back as possible.
Plus how fun it is to get going in an EV leads to a lot of extra tire wear.
I've found that rotating my tires more often helps spread the wear out from having a single motor EV.
Re: Waymo Premier
#248It will pay for itself if you spend >300$ per month. I personally wish Waymo have a 399$ per month subscription that give 2 free ride per day so I don't need to own a car just for work.
I imagine that is where society is headed. No one owns a car and most people pay for a subscription to an autonomous taxi.
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#249The dream of course is to replace singleton personal vehicle ownership, and to just rent a car as you need it.
If it slick enough (not too much friction) I'd be willing to sign up
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only get 1-2 years out of tires, but I also drive 25K+ miles a year. (And its a heavy EV Van) Tires are $800ish a set for the affordable ones (also due to heavy van) Cabin air filter is twice a year at $18 a filter (I replace them as soon as it smells weird) Home electricity is cheap at least. (7¢/kw)
Must be nice to have dirt cheap electricity. PG&E rates are 0.26 to 0.62/kw for the EV plan. Source: https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...
Come move to a shitty southern state, we've got low wages but cheap power.
>for the EV plan
Alright, I have to know what in the cali hell is going on here.