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> Now, if the cost was 35% less per ride than it is today, how much bigger would the market be? 1.5×? It is certainly not much more.

"Source?" "I made it up."



So you're saying that if the price dropped by 35%, the market would double? Who's making stuff up here? Or are you quibbling that it should be 1.7x or 1.8x?


I'm not the one claiming anything specific about robotaxi economics. What has been asserted without evidence can be denied without evidence. And I can think of plenty of reasons that there could be kinks or large elasticity changes: for example, thresholds where it becomes cheaper than owning a car in many places, which is currently not true anywhere in the USA AFAIK.




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