Originally Posted by Lebenz

I agree with the assessment. Does anyone know of anyone who has applied for a grant from the Gates foundation? The first task is getting some information about the number of vehicles that commute. I found some information about congestion but not on the # of vehicles per city. Next would be to figure out what wages are for drivers, mechanics, and all the support staff. My hipshot said about $38K annual, including benefits, or $3b for about 47K employees. Next is vehicle cost, fuel cost, maintenance cost. Building and infrastructure cost. Then comes revenue.

The cool thing is that according to my model, at 30 rides per vehicle per day, it would make a ton of $$. My model was contrived at $7 per trip. It would also replace about 1.2 million trips per day. That is a lot of cars off the road.