“services that go visit the customer outcompete ones that the customer has to go visit”—and what does this have to do with self-driving cars? Whether the doctor has to actively drive the car to travel to the patient, or can just sit there in the car while the car drives all the way, the same time is still lost due to the travel, and the same fuel is still used up. A doctor or a hairdresser would be able to spend significantly less time with customers, if most of the working day would be taken up by traveling. And what about all the tools which have to be carried inside the customer’s house?
And self driving hotel rooms? What, are we in the Harry Potter world where things can be larger in the inside than in the outside?
“services that go visit the customer outcompete ones that the customer has to go visit”—and what does this have to do with self-driving cars? Whether the doctor has to actively drive the car to travel to the patient, or can just sit there in the car while the car drives all the way, the same time is still lost due to the travel, and the same fuel is still used up.
Yes. But a significant part of the job of a doctor is paperwork (filing stuff for insurance companies etc.) and she can do that while the car drives itself. If she had to hire a driver (and have her sit idly while she’s with a patient), the driver would be the most expensive part of her vehicle, just like the taxi driver is the most expensive part of the taxi.
If she’s the kind of doctor that can carry all her equipment inside that car (i.e. not a radiologist 😉) she might even be able to abolish her office and waiting room entirely, for extra savings.
And self driving hotel rooms? What, are we in the Harry Potter world where things can be larger in the inside than in the outside?
No, we’re in a world where tourists generally don’t mind going slowly and enjoying the view. These things would be pretty big on the outside, at least RV size, but they wouldn’t be RVs. They wouldn’t usually have kitchens and their showers would have to be way nicer than typical RV showers.
No, we’re in a world where tourists generally don’t mind going slowly and enjoying the view. These things would be pretty big on the outside, at least RV size, but they wouldn’t be RVs. They wouldn’t usually have kitchens and their showers would have to be way nicer than typical RV showers.
And they could relocate overnight. That raises the possibility of self-driving sleeper cars for business travellers who need to be somewhere by morning.
Yes. I wonder how hard it’ll be to sleep in the things. I find sleeper trains generally a bad place to sleep, but that’s mostly because of the other passengers.
“services that go visit the customer outcompete ones that the customer has to go visit”—and what does this have to do with self-driving cars? Whether the doctor has to actively drive the car to travel to the patient, or can just sit there in the car while the car drives all the way, the same time is still lost due to the travel, and the same fuel is still used up. A doctor or a hairdresser would be able to spend significantly less time with customers, if most of the working day would be taken up by traveling. And what about all the tools which have to be carried inside the customer’s house?
And self driving hotel rooms? What, are we in the Harry Potter world where things can be larger in the inside than in the outside?
Yes. But a significant part of the job of a doctor is paperwork (filing stuff for insurance companies etc.) and she can do that while the car drives itself. If she had to hire a driver (and have her sit idly while she’s with a patient), the driver would be the most expensive part of her vehicle, just like the taxi driver is the most expensive part of the taxi.
If she’s the kind of doctor that can carry all her equipment inside that car (i.e. not a radiologist 😉) she might even be able to abolish her office and waiting room entirely, for extra savings.
No, we’re in a world where tourists generally don’t mind going slowly and enjoying the view. These things would be pretty big on the outside, at least RV size, but they wouldn’t be RVs. They wouldn’t usually have kitchens and their showers would have to be way nicer than typical RV showers.
And they could relocate overnight. That raises the possibility of self-driving sleeper cars for business travellers who need to be somewhere by morning.
Yes. I wonder how hard it’ll be to sleep in the things. I find sleeper trains generally a bad place to sleep, but that’s mostly because of the other passengers.