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When you consider the required tipping, the cost is quite close. And the Waymo is nicer.
Who tips on Uber?
sane people
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#512I'd be more interested in a $29/month surcharge if Waymo weren't already significantly more expensive than Uber/Lyft to begin with.
On a recent trip to SF I found Waymo to be cheaper than Uber about half the time. I wondered if I was seeing artificially discounted prices as a new rider.
hmm. I have always seen it to be more expensive (10-20%).
Re: Waymo Premier
#513It's only a matter of time until Waymo Premier Ultra Plus, as described by the premier documentary of our times, Black Mirror.
Ultra Plus™ benefits includes Trauma Team Premium™ service in case of accident or civil unrest.
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#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a hard time imagining how driving a car is freedom but hopping on a bus is not. In my mind a car is a liability in ways the bus is not. You have to insure your car, find parking, get a license, you cannot drive drunk, your license plate is tracked, etc. etc. vs. a bus which you can just hop in (as drunk as you want) fall a sleep or whatever and when you arrive the bus just drives away and you don’t have to thi…
>I have a hard time imagining how driving a car is freedom but hopping on a bus is not. Try telling the bus driver to make a stop at a particular restaurant along the way.
Funny enough, my local bus line does that. Admittedly it is unique among my local bus system (due to the rural nature of my local area relative to the rest of the system; and the relative length between bus stops). However the same bus system (King County Metro) also operates the access van, so if you are mobility impaired you do have the option to hail a ride which gets you door to door.
Re: Waymo Premier
#515What I want is a way to rent a car for an hour or two, so that I can leave shopping items or child seats in the car while making stops around town.
I assume you mean a self-driving vehicle but if not: https://www.zipcar.com/cities
I forgot about ZipCar. The downside in a place like SF is having to deal with parking it. I seem to recall dedicated ZipCar spots in the distant past ....
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#516> “I never got my driver's license, and I rely on Waymo to commute to an office every day," said Sarah Paige Roland, a Waymo rider in Phoenix. "I get privacy, time back, a safe ride, and I'm not obligated to talk to someone that I don't want to talk to." I recognize that this is a luxury product but I kind of laughed out loud at this testimonial. The amount of privilege you need to have to grow up and live in *Arizon…
Alternatively, consider the person is disabled and is physically incapable of driving.
or maybe they grew up in NYC or London and never drove in their life. then moved to PHX.
Re: Waymo Premier
#517Premier? How outdated. Should have named it "Waymo Supreme" for that extra generational cringe. What’s up with the fake review? > I get privacy, time back, … Yea you get "privacy" in a car kitted with the most advanced 360 degree camera system in the interior and exterior of the vehicle. Waymo PR team unhinged
Waymo Supreme comes with cheese
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#518Their coverage area in Orlando is so limited I functionally can't use the service. Would be nice if they could expand it to at least include the airport and tourist areas.
I think all of their metro areas are like this. I'm sure they did some math on the duty cycle of the cars to help draw the boundaries.
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Does the Subway arrive at my door?
Probably not. If you need to walk a mile, that’s a feature, not a bug. Of course, if you need to walk multiple miles, that’s a different story.
Walking to the station isn't even the bad part. The bad part is then walking 3min in tunnels smelling like piss to get to the platform, then waiting 7min more for the train to arrive, then walk 3min more to get out of another piss-filled station. That's 10-15 of absolutely-not-enjoyable subway station.
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#520Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you know before hand this would be the case ? cause even when choosing a model that was deemed well made and long-lasting, we hit an unfortunate engine belt timing failure (100k cars were concerned, we got one..) and had to replace the whole thing.
Yes, if you get a Toyota and maintain it, it would be expected to make it past 200k miles. They are by far the most reliable cars. Timing belt failures are only catastrophic for interference engines, and most cars use timing chains now, which have a much lower failure rate.
I wonder if you live in a very warm dry part of the world where it doesn't rain and they don't salt the road?
In $job-2 we had a small fleet of Toyota pickups that were leased brand new, returned to the leasing company at three years old just before they were due their first MOT. They were picked up from our workshop, and driven straight to the scrapyard and crushed. There wasn't a hope in hell of them passing even their first MOT.