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One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots

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Re: One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots

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When 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.

The US has shitty public transit. Solution? Over-pice scotter scattered around the city that will never turn a profit.

The US has a shitty scooter problem. Solution? More scooters, but these has cameras, and they are self driving. They help clear the sidewalks of the other shitty solution.

The US is a chain of shitty decisions that never address real problems, but cause the next generation of problems to keep the economy running.

Re: One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots

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post #4

When 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.

How long have you lived in manhattan? It's not common, but neither is it rare, to have to step over some human poop on the stairs of subway stations.
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