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Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

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Until we're out of this labor shortage, reducing the number of unskilled jobs society needs is a good thing.

there is no labor shortage there is benefits and decent salaries shortage the fact that nobody is volunteering to become a slave doesn't mean there is a labor shortage

Accepting this for the sake of argument, what's the harm in getting rid of a job that nobody was willing to work at anyway?

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

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> Usually when I see this, I just knock the things over and push them out of the way. So you make the problem worse ? Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? You can fix the problem you are encountering, and the people you want to protect CANT. You are choosing to make the problem worse for them? Why? I live in a major downtown full of these scooter…

> Why don’t you take 2 minutes Wow, if a 3-4 minute walk involves 10 scooters that's now almost a 25-minute walk. It's not the OP's job to clean up after everyone else.

No one encounters 10 misplaced scooters in a 3-4 minute walk, and it would take under a minute to move a single scooter. That's a very unrealistic hypothetical.

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

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> Yes, let's make innocent people crash their cars! That'll teach the people who left the scooters there a lesson! The cars are insured, the insurance companies will pursue the owners of the scooters. It's the negative feedback required to compel scooter companies to operate more responsibly.

Sometimes people get hurt or killed in car crashes, which just having insurance doesn't magically fix. And besides, if I were the scooter company, I'd be going after you who intentionally threw the scooter into the road, not after the last rider who parked it somewhere inconsiderate but not dangerous.

Are you aware that if you loan your vehicle out and it's used in a crime you're liable?

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

#154

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> Yes, let's make innocent people crash their cars! That'll teach the people who left the scooters there a lesson! The cars are insured, the insurance companies will pursue the owners of the scooters. It's the negative feedback required to compel scooter companies to operate more responsibly.

Sometimes people get hurt or killed in car crashes, which just having insurance doesn't magically fix. And besides, if I were the scooter company, I'd be going after you who intentionally threw the scooter into the road, not after the last rider who parked it somewhere inconsiderate but not dangerous.

Given that the rental scooter market is concentrated in cities, and that the roads where they're used are typically limited to 30mph or less, unless the person is actively throwing the scooter at the car, the cause of a crash would be an inattentive driver rather than a poorly-positioned scooter.

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

#155

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> Usually when I see this, I just knock the things over and push them out of the way. So you make the problem worse ? Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? You can fix the problem you are encountering, and the people you want to protect CANT. You are choosing to make the problem worse for them? Why? I live in a major downtown full of these scooter…

> Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? Because you’ll be doing this over and over again. How about those companies educate their users how to behave in a neighbourhood where those people are basically guests?

I mean do we really need the scooters at all in a country with 71.6% of adults overweight? A walk would do some good.

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

#156

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Sometimes people get hurt or killed in car crashes, which just having insurance doesn't magically fix. And besides, if I were the scooter company, I'd be going after you who intentionally threw the scooter into the road, not after the last rider who parked it somewhere inconsiderate but not dangerous.

Are you aware that if you loan your vehicle out and it's used in a crime you're liable?

Maybe, but if someone steals my car and uses it in a crime I'm not. And in this hypothetical, the company didn't loan the scooter to the person who caused the car crash with it.

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

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when I came close it stopped, as they do when sensing an object in front of them The security robots at one of the big skyscrapers down the street from me do not stop for people. My wife got knocked into by one when we were standing in the plaza looking up something on her phone. (They're not little delivery robots. They're about five feet tall.) Good thing she was confused by what happened, because she's also the ty…

What are "security robots" for the uninitiated?

These boys https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40642968

The ennui of their life clearly leads to their prematurely choosing one answer to Camus’s great question.

Re: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

#159

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when I came close it stopped, as they do when sensing an object in front of them The security robots at one of the big skyscrapers down the street from me do not stop for people. My wife got knocked into by one when we were standing in the plaza looking up something on her phone. (They're not little delivery robots. They're about five feet tall.) Good thing she was confused by what happened, because she's also the ty…

What are "security robots" for the uninitiated?

This is one I've seen in the wild. The K5 rocket-shaped model is heavy, 400 lbs (180 kg)

https://www.knightscope.com/

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