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London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

Grombobulous wrote: post #245
juleiie wrote: post #235

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These feelings are coming from being stared at. I can manage them by staring at people back in not so pleasant ways and having a weapon in a pocket if the staring contest escalates.

Every major city I’ve ever lived in or visited mostly involved people doing the exact opposite of staring because urban culture generally has a “leave everyone else alone and mind your own business” aspect to it. Because of that observation, I think it would be wise for you to dig deep on whether something about your own perceptions is failing you in this regard. I think there’s a strong likelihood that either someth…

It’s not my business to make sure people aren’t staring. It’s your business to keep your eyes where they belong - straight ahead.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

crote wrote: post #240
juleiie wrote: post #235

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These feelings are coming from being stared at. I can manage them by staring at people back in not so pleasant ways and having a weapon in a pocket if the staring contest escalates.

How do you know those people aren't staring at you because you started staring at them in an unpleasant way in response to them randomly glancing a look vaguely in your direction? I don't stare at people. They don't stare at me either. Problem solved?

I check if people are looking at me. It’s useful and sometimes they do. Then we are locked in staring at each other like two cats.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

crote wrote: post #239
juleiie wrote: post #205

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Honestly avoiding people on the street improves my mental and physical health by reducing chronic cortisol. These fuckers stare at you and worse. A day of this and i am an anxious wreck. It’s better to just get in your tanklet. Your little oasis. Home away from home. That’s how i move nowadays from most point As to Bs. Music, AC, glasses. Perfect privacy. Calmness. Peace. Kilograms of metal between you and the viciou…

> Honestly avoiding people on the street improves my mental and physical health by reducing chronic cortisol. These fuckers stare at you and worse. ... you do realize that you are also "these fuckers", right? It's like complaining about "being stuck in traffic": no, you are the traffic. The people on the street are just people. They aren't any different from your coworkers, your family members, or the parents of your…

We are totally not the same in ways you could never fully comprehend

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by vidarh »

juleiie wrote: post #235
Grombobulous wrote: post #227

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I won't literally ask where you live where you feel this way as I don't need you to reveal personal info about yourself, but I truly believe that if you feel this way and you don't live in some kind of extreme outlier crime-laden area, you might want to seriously think about talking to a therapist. This level of fear you describe is not a healthy or reasonable way to live your life and is not a very typical sentiment…

These feelings are coming from being stared at. I can manage them by staring at people back in not so pleasant ways and having a weapon in a pocket if the staring contest escalates.

I would urge you to seek help, as this attitude is not exactly indicating sound mental health.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by Traster »

Having been to Gatwick plenty of times, the weakness with this vs the already existing valet parking is that the valet parking is just 1 story of the short stay car park.

You just drive up, drop your keys and go, your car is parked in a long line of cars that they can asynchronously drive off to long stay. The key thing is the location - you're a 30 second walk over a bridge into the terminal. Probably a hundred cars can be sitting waiting to be driven off to the long stay at the time, so they can handle the drop off/pick up of many cars at once. Whereas with this solution each "bay" will be occupied for a time while the autonomous robot drives off the previous vehicle, so you either need to over-provision - have many robots servicing a single bay to cope with peak times, or you'll need some local skid buffer.

From a customer point of view. This is on the outskirts of the airport so it's a much longer walk without a covered path (so you'll get wet because at some point it will start raining again in the UK). It's maybe slightly better than long stay, where you do need a bus journey (which tbh isn't that bad). But I'm not sure how much juice is in this application to squeeze.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by masklinn »

juleiie wrote: post #260
crote wrote: post #234

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What about a unicorn shitting a rainbow onto your head? The problem with "but sometimes..." arguments is that the "sometimes" rarely happens. For example, at www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl someone tracked how often it rained during their daily commute of 2x 45 minutes of cycling. Over an 11-year period, 90.3% of the commutes were dry - and that number would be even higher for people with a shorter commute, or those willi…

Well i don’t really care. I can use the superior mode of transport so why i would not? Humanity invented engine you don’t need to use legs like a peasant. You can enjoy the fruits of civilisation

You know, you could have saved everybody a lot of time if you'd honestly told everyone "but I don't wanna" from the start.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by masklinn »

skrebbel wrote: post #207
Etheryte wrote: post #150

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I mean, you can get to and from practically any airport by bike if you're determined enough.

Sure but to Schiphol (and any other airport in NL obviously) there's a proper bicycle lane.

And Schiphol has ov-fiets and bike garages.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by peder »

Traster wrote: post #265

Having been to Gatwick plenty of times, the weakness with this vs the already existing valet parking is that the valet parking is just 1 story of the short stay car park. You just drive up, drop your keys and go, your car is parked in a long line of cars that they can asynchronously drive off to long stay. The key thing is the location - you're a 30 second walk over a bridge into the terminal. Probably a hundred cars…

Presumably this robotic valet will shift more towards long-term parking distant from the airport when it's known a customer is not returning. Today that's presumably cost ineffective.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

masklinn wrote: post #266
juleiie wrote: post #260

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Well i don’t really care. I can use the superior mode of transport so why i would not? Humanity invented engine you don’t need to use legs like a peasant. You can enjoy the fruits of civilisation

You know, you could have saved everybody a lot of time if you'd honestly told everyone "but I don't wanna" from the start.

I could but it wouldn’t be as entertaining in my opinion as having a prolonged exchange about such interesting problems and approaches to them.

Do we really owe anyone decrease in our comfort? Is there any reason to do so?

It isn’t a trivial question.

I might have crossed the line from thought provoking to offensive but in my defense it is an easy line to cross

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

vidarh wrote: post #264
juleiie wrote: post #235

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These feelings are coming from being stared at. I can manage them by staring at people back in not so pleasant ways and having a weapon in a pocket if the staring contest escalates.

I would urge you to seek help, as this attitude is not exactly indicating sound mental health.

It sure isn’t. I am an artist really at the core and I need to be little unhinged to create.

Of course I am not saying everyone should be crazy but it is what works for me.

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