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keewee7 on Aug 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

Is Jaguar still a niche brand?

Most taxis in Denmark and Germany are Mercedes-Benz so it's not uncommon for the taxi industry to use luxury brands.

chrisseaton on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

Niche in that they only sell a hundred thousand or so a year, yes. If Waymo are planning to seriously scale up they'll be using every Jaguar they're making!

yupper32 on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

Why would they need all Jaguars to scale up?

chrisseaton on Aug 24, 2021 | | [–]

Why would you want to have a hodge-podge of random vehicle makes to service?

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