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by prolly_a_moron
3367 days ago
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>No. On days where self driving cars don't work, price goes up, and the market puts more humans on the road. So all these humans are just hanging around waiting for it to snow so that they have the pleasure of driving other people around? The market will react instantaneously? Or are they doing other gigs in the meantime, like delivering people's lunches, laundry, groceries et al? |
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Maybe they will have other jobs. Most uber drivers work part time anyway, so that's not any different.
Maybe you have to pay people a premium to be an emergency driver.
Or maybe people will just drive less when it is snowing. Most of the time when I am using transportation, I don't 100% NEED to go on the trip. Maybe Ill just buy groceries tomorrow instead of today.
But even so, if 90% of the time, transportation prices are near 0 $, that is still crazy distruptive.
The market can easily solve any of the problems you are bringing up, just with behavioral/price chances.
And trucking isn't even affected by any of the issues you brought up. An x% chance of being a day late is easily worth 90% shipping cost decreases.