You don’t need a parking spot—the system can still be used as a robotaxi, it just has additional uses.
You don’t need to be where your wagon is, you can send it places. Because of that, you could even rent out your wagon (say you offer a rental sound system or a mobile massage parlor).
...but you could put a bed in your wagon? And you could rent out your bed to massage parlors? I think this system is going to have some hygiene issues with most people...
AirBNB has long since transformed into just another channel for professional hospitality services. I remember putting my apartment to AirBNB for giggles in 2014 and geez, it was so not worth the hassle of being afraid “what if a guest tosses my TV through the window?”. No one did, and back in those days, guests were understanding of being in someone’s actual home. But nowadays? I don’t think most hosts live in the apartments; “AirBNB apartments” are a specific kind of flats that you recognize at a glance.
Taxis are the professional person transport services that are similarly recognizable from the wear on the one hand and from the general tidiness on the other. Keeping the robotaxi clean eats into profits. If a robotaxi were to a private car what AirBNB apartment is to a home (you can’t e.g. keep your personal stuff there, or leave anything valuable in there), then I would be happy to use them but I wouldn’t want to own it (other than as a capital asset).
You combine some of the advantages of both approaches, but also some disadvantages:
you need a parking spot
you need to wait for the engine
you need to be where your wagon is (or else have it delivered)
you can be identified both through your wagon and your regular interaction with a centralized service
You don’t need a parking spot—the system can still be used as a robotaxi, it just has additional uses.
You don’t need to be where your wagon is, you can send it places. Because of that, you could even rent out your wagon (say you offer a rental sound system or a mobile massage parlor).
...but you could put a bed in your wagon? And you could rent out your bed to massage parlors? I think this system is going to have some hygiene issues with most people...
In a way that Airbnb does not?
AirBNB has long since transformed into just another channel for professional hospitality services. I remember putting my apartment to AirBNB for giggles in 2014 and geez, it was so not worth the hassle of being afraid “what if a guest tosses my TV through the window?”. No one did, and back in those days, guests were understanding of being in someone’s actual home. But nowadays? I don’t think most hosts live in the apartments; “AirBNB apartments” are a specific kind of flats that you recognize at a glance.
Taxis are the professional person transport services that are similarly recognizable from the wear on the one hand and from the general tidiness on the other. Keeping the robotaxi clean eats into profits. If a robotaxi were to a private car what AirBNB apartment is to a home (you can’t e.g. keep your personal stuff there, or leave anything valuable in there), then I would be happy to use them but I wouldn’t want to own it (other than as a capital asset).
Wait how can you use as robotaxi without a wagon? They provide standard wagons?