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Re: Waymo for Business

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bike is in fact the more appropriate transport for moving a 200lb person than a 5000lb vehicle. Literally 95% of the energy being consumed is just to move the damned vehicle around, not to do anything productive with it.

Your relative masses are obviously exaggerated. Showering uses hot water and you also must change clothes, which also require cleaning. If you are doing this twice per day in addition to someone using some other means of transportation there is a non trivial energy cost involved. If the car propulsion is non fossil fuel based then the car wins because you are using much less water.

I shower once a day regardless. I combine my bike commute on the way in with train or bus depending on the route I feel like. No sweat that way. The ride back I will do on a bike and take a shower after. Gets the cardio requirement done at the same time as the commute so it's a two birds one stone thing.

Re: Waymo for Business

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Why are they not hyper-focused on scaling the number of vehicles on the road now that they have a working system? Is Waymo afraid of flooding the supply and crashing prices? Are they too expensive to build/maintain to justify a lower price point? What is going on, if you have PMF the logical next step is scale.

There are months long lead times to arrange to rent space for depots, install charging points, and to staff up the depots, which need to operate 24/7. The more visible part of the leadtime to open a new city is in testing the service areas. But I doubt that the critical path.

Re: Waymo for Business

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I hope they'll support car pooling, and bigger vehicles for the same.

maybe some car pool services for the most frequent routes could run at regular intervals. there could even be some predefined stops to efficiently batch many people getting on and off the car pool at once

How does the old-school bus know when nobody needs a ride?
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