[aiauthoritydev]

Operational profits is not really a goal for Waymo in near term. The current goal is to be many years ahead of competition, getting permits to operate in major profitable cities with profitable routes.

The cost of a Waymo car right now is around $150K. Soon, Waymo will build its own cars (with partnership with some car manufacturer) from scratch which will bring this cost to around $40K.

currently WayMo has around 2 people per car employed in service roles which will be like 2 people per 50 cars. At that point they will be swimming in profits.

[ugh123]

> currently WayMo has around 2 people per car employed in service roles

Do you have a source for this? I'm curious about their operations

[RivieraKid]

It's almost certainly not true.

[rob74]

> The current goal is to be many years ahead of competition

The problem with this is that one of their competitors (Tesla) now has very powerful friends in the government which are certainly not above using that power in their favor...

[dageshi]

This is another reason why I think they will remain low key.

They'll perpetually be in "beta" until they're so ubiquitous that the idea of getting rid of them is unthinkable.