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Not sure if it’s common elsewhere, but many gas stations around my area have screen on the pump that play obnoxiously loud ads while you’re pumping gas. Most of them have a mute button at least.
In Thailand currently and most of the pumps play a nice little 8 bit dance jingle. I'd take that over ads!
"questionable behavior", "dirty", "debauchery", "accomplice", "unseemly behavior". I stopped reading after that.
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> What's the point of robotaxis if you can't screw in them? What's the point of me taking a robotaxi if the two people before me could potentially have had sex in it?
Good luck finding an airbnb that hasn't been recently used by someone else.
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Over in Japan, some of the taxis now play ads (obnoxious audio included!) for the passengers to watch. Yes, you still pay the full fare. Yes, it is fucking obnoxious. No, there is no power off or mute button; none that I could find, anyway.
Not sure if it’s common elsewhere, but many gas stations around my area have screen on the pump that play obnoxiously loud ads while you’re pumping gas. Most of them have a mute button at least.
One of the many, MANY jarring things about going to the US. I jam my gas-gap filler cap in the handle and go check the oil so I can get as far away from that nonsense as possible.
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It's gross for two reasons I think (not saying I necessarily relate to them): 1) communicable diseases, e.g. crabs., and 2) if someone has to maintain cleanliness for any religious purpose.
How does the religious cleanliness factor in?
Now, with robotaxis you dont need to worry about the driver - but how many cams are in the cab of the robotaxi
"welcome to Johnny Cab"
Hahahahaha. So on the one hand this is a (somewhat?) positive article, even if it's looking for trouble. In that it's normalizing the self-driving car. It's taking it as a given and writing about something else. That's intesting in showing acceptance.
On the other hand, the developers are then going all "we are actively working to put a stop to that". This is why we can't have nice things.
People take taxis when they are drunk. People are more likely to engage in sex while drunk. People take taxis when they want a degree of privacy as they travel, as opposed to busses. People are more likely to have sex when in a semi-private space. A taxi provides a degree of physical security, a barrier between you and the mob. Why is this a surprise? In SF I expect that some taxi startup will soon target this market…
The second biggest issue when taking public transport while drunk, is sleeping and missing your stop.
What's the point of robotaxis if you can't screw in them? Are you just supposed to stare at your phone with all that extra time? They'll probably eventually get shittified like everything else and refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin.