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The Cybertruck is dead, makes way for Cybercab says Elon Musk (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 6 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

If we have fully autonomous cars, why would we need cabs?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 16 hours ago* (3 children)

    1.. Buy fully autonomous car

    2.. rent it out as an autonomous cab

    3.. use an autonomous cab to get around

    4.. ???????

    5.. Profit

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago

    This works if most people don't have an autonomous car too, so they are forced to rent one. The business case for this is such level of poverty where most people cannot afford owning a car; and then a petty rentier class exploiting them for pennies. Welcome to neo-feudalism.

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