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RE: New Study Investigates How Much Consumers Are Willing To Pay For Automation
They asked the wrong questions. Their assumptions were invalid.
I've heard it discussed elsewhere that in the very near future people won't BUY cars. Who want's a car anyway? What you want is transportation. You want to get from point A to point B as conviently as possible. That's why mass transite sux. It is NOT convient.
Autonomous vehicles are a differnt color of horse.
Imagine Uber or something similar. All you need is a smartphone. You use it to summon a ride...and it's THERE in a few minutes. Quicker than you could walk to your car in the parking lot.
Then it takes you where you want to go..and that's it.
None of the hassel of automobile ownership (and they are LEGION)
That's what I was thinking too, when I read doitvoluntarily's post. The question is not what customers are willing to pay for a vehicle, but what they are willing to pay for (individual) "transportation as a service".
yup...i expect that the age of the private automobile is drawing to an end. Fairly soon the only thing that will be privately owned will be RV's
it is a valuable question for the many corporations currently funneling billions of dollars toward developing and working on this technology :)
how much people are willing to spend on transportation can be its own separate study and has been. Don't think this travel option is going away anytime soon. Will be nice to see some flying ones eventually !
real soon in Texas