Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway

A building center of robotaxis, high use and low labor costs will eventually choose cheap transportation. It’s still far from the truth, but now there are some information that gives us a lot.

Obi units real-time prices and pike-up time among many walking services, just published callers “The first deep examination of the Wayon’s price strategy.“The company has found the road driver’s walks to be more expensive than Waymo’s self-driving car, Uber and Lyft, and it is not different.

Shared only with TechCrunch, based on a month of a month collected in California, California, March 25 and April 25. Obi, Price and ETA to compare LYFT’s “Standard” offer and about 90,000 “offer notes from Uberx.” And then compared to walking on the same time and routes. Obi Lyft, the lowest average price offered $ 14.44. Uber was about $ 15.58. Wayon’s average price worth $ 20.43.

Ashwila Anburajan, OBI’s General Officer, TechCrunch, Waymo’s service was somewhat surprising, taking into account the early popularity of the service. Waymo said they were 250,000 in May Paid travels per week in the first four cities. The higher the price is probably excited.

“The autonomous vehicles will overturn the driver and the drivers are something that is in risk.

Peak hours Obi, Waymo’s average price, more expensive than a LYFT and a $ 9.50 worth of a Uber.

“I did not expect to pay consumers to $ 10 more,” he said. “I think [that] Technology is a real feeling of excitement for innovation and a real advantage to be in the car without a driver. “

Obi, not only the road was not more expensive, but there was more variability in prices compared to Uber or LYFT.

Anburajan, an explanation, Wayon’s price model said he was not finer. Uber and Lyft, he has been more than a decade to specify how they walked. These platforms are a bit more dynamic by simultaneous time or to join or leave or leaving or leaving or leaving their time or on their time.

Meanwhile, Waymo is mainly stable, but slowly supply of vehicles growing (this growth rate can be accelerated soon). This is more of the “clean supply and demand” price scheme that Anbiran said.

Customers have two great effects. One is that short trips are more than those who are longer. Obi, if walking less than 1.4 km, Waymo found that the walks of walks cost about $ 26 per kilometer.

The Uber and Lyft Rides were also. However, Obi is 41.48% and 31.12% higher than Uber and Uber and Lyft, respectively. This space shrinks as rides stay longer. On a walk between 4.3 km and 9.3 km, a LYFT cost $ 2.60 per LYFT, a Uber, $ 2.90 per km and a road to one km is $ 3.50 per km.

The other influence is that it is equal to more expensive trips. After all, sending a long way to take a customer of a car means the less high margin will make a short walk.

This still does not be discouraged by Waymo’s customers, Although we had higher volatility in waiting for Obi Waymo.

In addition to the data-based deep dive, ObI, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, conducted research in Arizona to better understand these trends.

The company said that 70% of users leading a road trip, said they preferred the traditional rideshare or taxi in the driverless car.

Despite this enthusiasm, Obi, the security driver still found that there was a great concern. 74% of those participating in the survey, security are the biggest concern of robotaxis, he said. About 70% of the respondents said they thought that the walks of walking remotely think that the monitoring of man’s monitoring (something already with a common experience).

Perhaps more surprising people responded to a question whether people willing to pay more for a path. About 40% said they would pay “the same or less.” However, 16.3%, he will pay less than $ 5 per walk, he said. The other 10.1% said they would pay for more than $ 5 for each walk. 16.3% said he would pay for more than $ 10 more for a walk.

Anburajan said that this help was later answered by Wayon’s pricier walks.

“There is something about being in the car that customers wins,” he said.