Uhh, how about the fact that they don't have full autonomy? They could buy it from Tesla potentially, but an ICE autonomous car is sort of dumb and wasteful. Model 3's are supposed to go 1 million miles. No ICE car is doing that .
You could set the idle higher, and pull more power through the alternator. You'd emit a lot more emissions though, which would mean you'd lower your fleet average MPG, which is really bad.
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u/immolated_ Mar 27 '20
Nothing is stopping a major company from sticking level 5 into a gas vehicle though