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0 pointsdmitriid6y ago0 comments

Spotify's central office in Stockholm has ~1000 employees.

So, at 6pm a thousand people call up the efficient fast driverless cars to go home....

And that's just one office out of a dozen on that street.

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Those 1000 people don't have to be served by 1000 privately owned single occupancy vehicles. When they are inputting their destination before departure, a robo taxi can deliver 6-8 people with similar destinations door-to-door for a fraction of the cost of a private vehicle, the same comfort level, but occupy hardly more road space then 70-80 seat transit buses.

moogly6y ago

That's just public transport with a different name (and less efficiency). People want to ride alone.

tooop6y ago

No ride share is the same comfort level as private vehicle and it never will be.

dmitriidOP6y ago

So, those 1000 people have to:

- somehow find other people "with similar destinations"

- somehow synchronise the time they leave work

- figure out who calls and pays for the robo-taxi

How is that effecient?

And, once again, that's just one office on a street of a dozen or so office buildings. Across is a building that houses 10 or so different companies. So I guess those people should also somehow group themselves across companies?

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