This is such a laughably dismissible idea, I don't even know where to start: navigating sidewalks and crosswalks autonomously is even more difficult than autonomously navigating the roadways (what with all the standardized signals, markings, rules, etc.) and yet here we are pitching it as if we already have the technology to accomplish this to any useful degree. Is it going to locate and push the correct crosswalk button to make sure it has a chance to cross the street safely and legally? Also, what are these things going to do when drunk (or otherwise unhelpful) passerby inevitably kick them over, rendering them completely immobile? This is 100% innovation theater.
One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots
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#12Or you know the people using the scooters could park them properly.
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#13When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States. Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Series A investors were able to get that new electric Porsche and didn't have to settle for a Corvette like some filthy commoner.
>I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.
It's certainly not a regular part of life in the United States. It may be (but probably isn't) a regular part of your own life in the United States.
I've made eye contact with a pooping homeless person in the United States zero times over four decades of life.
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#14Can someone please come up with AI software that generates buzzword-mashing-up startup ideas, gathers investor capital, hires 23 year olds to work 70 hours a week, and turns around and sells it to another tech company for a few million dollars?
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#15When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
Hacker news should add a secondary vote button for title accuracy, or any way to validate titles.
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#16When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
I live in Manhattan, and I literally have never seen human waste anywhere in NYC since I've lived here. Plenty of dog poop, maybe a needle in sketchy areas. But San Francisco is another level of screwed up these days.
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#17When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States. Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Series A investors were able to get that new electric Porsche and didn't have to settle for a Corvette like some filthy commoner.
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#18Another way to keep the sidewalks clear is to not allow them to begin with.
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#19When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
San Francisco problems require San Francisco solutions.
Autonomous mobile portapotties as a service.
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#20When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.
I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States. Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Series A investors were able to get that new electric Porsche and didn't have to settle for a Corvette like some filthy commoner.
> I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.
I think you mean "This has become a regular part of life in the city I live in." That is so outside of regular life in the vast majority of the USA that I can't comprehend seeing it once.
In what city is that an actual regular part of life?