[nonethewiser]

Can someone help me put this into context?

$30/month is way cheaper than $104/month.

How would you compare the base metrics?

Time to start traveling, average walk amount per trip, total trip duration, coverage parity, etc.

I suspect you can get into a waymo quicker and with less walking than a subway, unless you live very close. I imagine total trip time is pretty variable. Coverage parity is hard to guess about - in theory a waymo can go anywhere but I suspect public transport has longer "tendrils."

[boarsofcanada]

For just the two daily BART trips that I do within SF, it would be $1200+/mo for Waymo/Uber/Lyft. So from that perspective perhaps the extra $30/mo for the small convenience of getting priority and being able to cancel a few rides could be seen as “cheap” by comparison.

If I include the walks of 30+ minutes and bus rides, it’s probably pushing $2k/mo in rideshare costs.

[crooked-v]

It's $30/month for these extras. You're still paying per trip, just with a de facto 10% off.

[shostack]

10% off is practically nothing and also irrelevant because it is the total cost of the trip that matters and they can easily increase that over time behind the scenes in a way that makes up for that 10% and then some once they determine the price elasticity of these premium customers which I imagine is quite higher.

[nonethewiser]

Oh I missed that. Thanks for clarifying.