I want the white glove concierge guy/gal to also drive it for me. It’d be like Uber but for longer trips with nicer cars.

Manually driven cars will hit autonomous cars, which will be extremely expensive to fix. Today, a body shop can mis-align the headlights or backup radar sensors without causing too much issue. But an autonomous cars will probably refuse to drive (or even worse...) if one or more sensors gets out of wack.

Any real world experience with one of these front-engine Ferrari GT cars? Are they also ridiculously expensive to maintain?

Previous owner spent the bulk of that $38k. I believe they only paid the F1 transmission work.

would I rather have a $75k F355 with $50K set aside for maintenance over its life or a brand new 911

Most probably won’t even touch it if it doesn’t have a perfect history.

Educate me on the need for a CEO for basically a sales office?

Unless your friend is a cop, the world “super drunk” doesn’t applies.

Faster - by what definition? straight line acceleration? 1/4 mile? top speed? race track?

Paper maps are good because you have to actually watch the road really carefully in order to use them.

+1

In near future:

I think there are still opportunities for further optimization in this business. For example, self-driving taxi will be elephant in the room. But there are smaller things as well, such as having multiple drivers share a car to reduce the cost of entry and running cost, better support for car-pooling, better support…

They will make it by driving up hype in the USA and then sell in the Chinese market?

How long has that 2014 Viper been sitting in the dealer lot? It is probably made in 2013, and now we are almost into 2017!

You either have free market or you don’t.

I use a garage in Southern California.

The aero penalty will gradually disappear as sensors get smaller and get integrated into the body panels.

But I’m a cashier at Walmart.

GM got it completely wrong. I want a second home, not a second office. Give me a self-driving Sprinter and I’ll live in it happily ever after.