Inside Motional's strategy to bring robotaxis to market
I joined the strategy team and worked on bizdev so I learned a lot about acceptability and usage and patterns and how do you actually deploy these vehicles at scale from the fleet management perspective. Interestingly, with Maven, I also had the chance to rent cars to Uber and Lyft drivers with a program called Express Drive. That gave me a deep understanding of the unit economics of how hard it is for the gig economy worker to actually get the flexibility -- it's a pretty hard job and they have to work a lot of hours to make a lower minimum wage. It gave me an appreciation for what it takes to deploy a fleet at scale. It comes down to how do you improve utilization?
Oct-13-2022, 18:50:09 GMT