[exacube]

Human labour is by far the most expensive aspect of taxis. If a tax driver earns 35,000 USD/yr, a self-driving car only needs to cost < 35,000/yr to turn a profit at scale.

IIUC, FSD costs are mostly captured by the running service, and the lidar equipment. The lidar equpiment is < 20,000/car for sure, and I can't imagine it costing 15,000/car to service it using waymo's ride hailing platform at scale.

[jdminhbg]

And don’t forget that a human driver needs to rest. A FSD cab can operate 24/7 minus maintenance downtime.

[somethoughts]

And then on top of 24/7 operation if the lidar equipment can last at least a 5 year life time, it'd be about <$4000/yr/car since its amortized over the life of the lidar equipment.

[throwaway888abc]

Very good point. Also usable for any other transport activity (in near future?). Last mile packages, etc.

[superkuh]

At least in places where it doesn't snow.