Its not the selling of the cars as much as the service department. Dealers make the vast majority of their money in service. Tesla is a HUGE GIGANTIC THREAT to this model. First, the cars need little of traditional pricey service (fluids, pumps, transmission, etc) because it doesn't even have those components. Second, Tesla sees car repair as a net-0 profit. They don't want to make a single penny off servicing your car.
The dealers know this. They make surprisingly very little off selling vehicles.
As in, the age of the universe? If aliens existed, they would be so far advanced that he, you and anyone else could even fathom it. Now lets put it this way, would we as humans go our of our way to step on a a tiny ant colony in the middle of the desert in Australia?
Let me keep what I don't use then. If I used 2gb of my 4gb, let me rollover the 2 remaining to the next month and so on and so forth. If in 3 years I have 50GB free so be it, I paid for it.
"Hello Mr Jones, I see you are interested in a Model S P90D in red with XXX options. Just so happens our rental facility next door we have one for a 1-hour rental with the 1st hour free. It also happens that we just got in this rental and you will be the first one driving it! Once you get back from your rental you can buy this car through our Used Rentals Program, just like Hertz, Budget, etc, for $1 under new MSRP!"
0 per month, have owned it (Mazda 3) for 4 years. Paid it off in 3. Gas is about $30/week. Insurance is under $50. Maintenance has been inexpensive, only replaced the brakes once and the tires twice. Have never paid for parking. About to hit 100k miles.
It's not a cost saving, its far more expensive in fact. Can you imagine paying around $10 for every 1-way trip you do? I'm guessing I do 50 1-way rides a week all the running around to work, kids events, shopping, etc. $500 a week is not what I call saving money.
Well I do agree with the 20 years part, but not so much with the AI part. Google has a VERY impressive system, I highly recommend watching this video (very cool stuff too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik
But I still think it's a long way off even with how good it is.
They don't even have have the laws changed yet so driverless cars can even operate. Good luck on that one within 5 years. And once it happens and these things start having accidents (which will happen, they will be on the road with human drivers who will always blame the machine which we see already in Tesla accidents) and lawyers get involved it will stretch the time-frame out even further. But on to when they eventually do...
So everyone is going to hail a 'cab' whenever they want to go somewhere? Is that really their plan? Like a trip to Starbucks? To the grocery store? To a friends house? To soccer/band/swim/etc practice? To a school football game? If to a big event and 300 people need a ride home how many hours of a wait will it be? Do they plan on having a massive amount of cars sit idle for big weekend events? And how much will all these trips be? Sounds way more expensive than owning a car and about a thousand times more annoying. Try going to Disney World during the summer and wait for a bus back to your resort after Magic Kingdom closes. They have the best transportation system I've ever seen and you can still have an hour wait.
But he did get some free advertisement. OMG driverless carz!
They can make it as clear as daylight, but its human nature to begin doing the exact opposite after a period of time. It's human nature to not pay attention when you're not doing anything. Read the NASA opinion on this, explains it well.
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They always 100% of the time have 1 driver.
Level 5? Not even close.
No, it's never zero drivers.
Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
Hmm, you have a point there.
Its not the selling of the cars as much as the service department. Dealers make the vast majority of their money in service. Tesla is a HUGE GIGANTIC THREAT to this model. First, the cars need little of traditional pricey service (fluids, pumps, transmission, etc) because it doesn't even have those components. Second, Tesla sees car repair as a net-0 profit. They don't want to make a single penny off servicing your car.
The dealers know this. They make surprisingly very little off selling vehicles.
Because you like the Government telling you what you can and can't purchase? You also must love paying insane amounts of money for car repair.
As in, the age of the universe? If aliens existed, they would be so far advanced that he, you and anyone else could even fathom it. Now lets put it this way, would we as humans go our of our way to step on a a tiny ant colony in the middle of the desert in Australia?
Let me keep what I don't use then. If I used 2gb of my 4gb, let me rollover the 2 remaining to the next month and so on and so forth. If in 3 years I have 50GB free so be it, I paid for it.
$15 per GB over...
"Hello Mr Jones, I see you are interested in a Model S P90D in red with XXX options. Just so happens our rental facility next door we have one for a 1-hour rental with the 1st hour free. It also happens that we just got in this rental and you will be the first one driving it! Once you get back from your rental you can buy this car through our Used Rentals Program, just like Hertz, Budget, etc, for $1 under new MSRP!"
0 per month, have owned it (Mazda 3) for 4 years. Paid it off in 3. Gas is about $30/week. Insurance is under $50. Maintenance has been inexpensive, only replaced the brakes once and the tires twice. Have never paid for parking. About to hit 100k miles.
It's not a cost saving, its far more expensive in fact. Can you imagine paying around $10 for every 1-way trip you do? I'm guessing I do 50 1-way rides a week all the running around to work, kids events, shopping, etc. $500 a week is not what I call saving money.
If you can't afford a used car, you definitely can't afford to be spending way more in 'cab' fares at around $10 a 1-way trip.
And can you imagine haling a 'cab' for every stop in your running around at around $10 a pop?
Well I do agree with the 20 years part, but not so much with the AI part. Google has a VERY impressive system, I highly recommend watching this video (very cool stuff too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik
But I still think it's a long way off even with how good it is.
They don't even have have the laws changed yet so driverless cars can even operate. Good luck on that one within 5 years. And once it happens and these things start having accidents (which will happen, they will be on the road with human drivers who will always blame the machine which we see already in Tesla accidents) and lawyers get involved it will stretch the time-frame out even further. But on to when they eventually do...
So everyone is going to hail a 'cab' whenever they want to go somewhere? Is that really their plan? Like a trip to Starbucks? To the grocery store? To a friends house? To soccer/band/swim/etc practice? To a school football game? If to a big event and 300 people need a ride home how many hours of a wait will it be? Do they plan on having a massive amount of cars sit idle for big weekend events? And how much will all these trips be? Sounds way more expensive than owning a car and about a thousand times more annoying. Try going to Disney World during the summer and wait for a bus back to your resort after Magic Kingdom closes. They have the best transportation system I've ever seen and you can still have an hour wait.
But he did get some free advertisement. OMG driverless carz!
And on a 'SUV'. Some sports utility vehicle that you can't put a kayak on the roof.
They can make it as clear as daylight, but its human nature to begin doing the exact opposite after a period of time. It's human nature to not pay attention when you're not doing anything. Read the NASA opinion on this, explains it well.
Ok. Tesla. Next?
How far can you throw a hard drive? Or a DVD? I bet I can hit 30 yards on those suckers!
And those have to do with fossil fuel or renewable subsidies how? Or do you just switch topics when you can't answer something?
You must be new here, welcome to /.
So her concussion didn't happen? The cerebral sinus thrombosis isn't real? It's all propaganda?
I looked up the most common repairs. Just about every site I saw had the same ones.
1. Brake Work. Most EVs use regenerative breaking. Advantage EV by far.
2. Oil Changes. EVs don't use oil.
3. Coolant System (Radiator/Cooling system). EVs do have cooling for the batteries, but nothing like can be compared to ICE. Advantage EV.
4. Tires. EVs typically weigh more, advantage ICE.
5. Ignition System. Advantage EV.
6. Electrical System. Equal.
7. Fuel System. Advantage EV, doesn't have one.
8. Transmission. Advantage EV, doesn't have one.
9. Exhaust System. Advantage EV, doesn't have one.
10. Air Conditioning System. Equal.