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Absolutely hate these scooters from an ADA prospective. My neighborhood is a mostly quiet one near the center of a large city, where there are a lot of mothers who push their kids in strollers, older folks with canes, and some people even in wheelchairs. On the weekends -- sometimes the weekdays as well depending on the time of the year -- the city gets flooded with both tourists, and suburbanites who want to go to a…
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What's the business model here? It seems like delivery bots could only work on wide walking paths on closed campuses. Or are the startups here assuming we'll build dedicated infrastructure for them? I can't imagine they would ever work in real world cities (putting rolling roadblocks on busy public sidewalks is antisocial at best, and besides they're bound to get blocked by obstructions en route that require them to…
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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> 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.
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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.
The crime in this case is littering, and the person your hypothetical scooter company is going to pursue for moving the litter into the road where a car hit it is quite likely to be a minor whose identity you'll never determine. But you're creating circumstances for this outcome to be probable by leaving unescured scooters littering sidewalks. Much like leaving your car idling with a key in the ignition and the doors…
Doesn't something have to be trash for leaving it somewhere to count as littering? After all, improperly parking a car isn't littering, even if it's a Zipcar or something.
> leaving your car idling with a key in the ignition and the doors unlocked
But it isn't like that, since these scooters do lock their wheels.
College students 1950-2010: survive on ramen, peanut butter and canned tuna, live with roomates, walk everywhere, shop in thrift stores
College students today: get robot-delivered restaurant food, complain about lack of parking on campus from their new iphone, demand tax-payers pay back the student loans they took out to live in luxury for 4 years
Anybody knows who make these robots and what model is it? Can i buy this robot?
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The funniest/strangest/saddest angle I've encountered on this thread so far is regarding disabled people potentially not getting their food... as if human delivery was somehow not an option.
Humans can also perform manual arithmetic, but we still prefer to let the computer do that for us.
Socially/culturally/economically no civilization on Earth is advanced enough to provide for their people when faced with the above. Menial labor has its downsides, but the upsides are survival instead of death.
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Same. That for sure fixes a huge problem of humankind. When I was young, we had to walk hundreds of meters to eat a pizza.
The funniest/strangest/saddest angle I've encountered on this thread so far is regarding disabled people potentially not getting their food... as if human delivery was somehow not an option.
Three jobs gone, and for what? A snarky comment. The horror.