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Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

tudelo wrote: post #442
nradov wrote: post #271

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You've got to be kidding. SF police and prosecutors barely do anything about real crimes, never mind blocking a road for a few minutes.

People will reply to you calling you crazy, but SF/bay is the only place I have ever experienced where many people will literally leave their cars unlocked because a broken window isn't worth the hassle. Yes, locking your parked car is a hazard here... and the reason is obvious.

That was a thing when I was growing up just outside Detroit, too, which shows how bad a sign that is.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #413
paulryanrogers wrote: post #314

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Are cars really the best option? Could other public transit serve the same purpose? (I was once legally blind, still not a fan of cars myself. Though I understand the appeal when externalities are out of the picture.)

In the USA where transit in most cities sucks? Seattle is supposedly one of the best but you can’t get to work downtown most days without being harassed by a fent zombie.

Seattle's is only one of the best if both ends of your trip are on the light rail.

The drug addicts are also much less of an issue than a lot of media makes them seem. I'm not sure what would happen if I tried to shove my way through the crowd at 12th and Jackson, but mostly those "zombies" aren't paying much attention to passersby.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

runarberg wrote: post #529
nearlyepic wrote: post #503

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I really don’t know who told you that Seattle has one of the best transit infrastructures in the country, lol. It’s not even close to New York or Chicago, nor any of the forward thrust cities (DC, Atlanta). Hell, the light rail isn’t even as good as Portland.

I suspect they may be thinking about growth here, since Seattle’s system has had a very impressive growth, and is improving at a rate no other city in the USA comes close. So in other words Seattle for sure has one of the best transit policy in the USA, however New York for sure has a much better system. I do disagree with you vehemently about Seattle’s light rail being inferior to Portland’s. That may have been true…

> and is improving at a rate no other city in the USA comes close.

As long as you weren't hoping to take a train to Ballard in your lifespan.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

runarberg wrote: post #463
spunker540 wrote: post #457

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now imagine a bus, but its smaller and private only for you. for me that is true freedom! not only can you hop in as drunk as you want, and fall asleep, but you can also control the climate and the music and spread out. and when you arrive the waymo just drives away and you don’t have to think about it ever again in your life

Like I said earlier, this technology does not exist. And even if it did, the infrastructure required for everyone to own and operate such a car would be orders of magnitude more expensive and much much much politically harder choice to approve then to build out public transit and to provide access services.

They specifically referred to it as a "waymo". Everyone wouldn't own one, they would hire one for the trip, like you can already do with a non-autonomous rental car for a cross-country trip.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

dotcoma wrote: post #447
crubier wrote: post #360

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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.

While I enjoy going for a walk (and will gladly walk four miles as a leisure activity), I don't enjoy wanting to go somewhere and needing to budget an extra hour (or more) for the extra two miles of walking each way, possibly in bad weather. It's like saying the buses always running a half hour late is a feature because it gives you some time to read.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

nradov wrote: post #245
postalrat wrote: post #227

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Do you think sitting inside you will be protected if someone has a gun?

Obviously the Waymo Premier service should also include a nice handgun with the car.

We need the service Delamain sells in Cyberpunk:

> Clients can also upgrade to the Excelsior package, which includes the standard service package plus complete health coverage, active passenger medical scanning, combat mode, and free corpse disposal in the event of the client's death.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by gs17 »

Julesman wrote: post #213

Zero value. I don't get it. Priority Pickups: The only ostensible value. I've never waited more than 5 minutes for a car. $360 a year to save a couple minute? Ride Savings: Pay to save money. Early Access: Zero value. Flexible Cancellations: Pay to save money.

> I've never waited more than 5 minutes for a car. $360 a year to save a couple minute?

Depends on which city you're in. When I visited Nashville, it was a 15-20 minute wait to be assigned a Waymo in what had to be off-peak hours (at least, I'm presuming a lot of the market is getting drunk people from Broadway to somewhere else). If it made it go to 5 minutes wait and I still lived there, that might be something I could write off if I used it every day.

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

agumonkey wrote: post #475
Melatonic wrote: post #135

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How many times did you replace the timing belt (and probably water pump) before the failure ? Curious what vehicle this is

It was a nissan micra k12, and I used the wrong term, it's not a belt it's a timing chain (metallic) allegedly designed for longer longevity, but there was an industry issue (bad alloy or something) that made them stretch and lose sync with the timing chain counter circuit. The ECU would trip and rapidly the engine would just stop (quite dangerous depending on which road your on). Car mechanics had to swap the whole…

Many years ago (like 30) an old neighbour of mine gave me his Nissan Micra K10 because the timing belt had snapped. It had been his first car that he'd bought, and he couldn't bring himself to scrap it. I bought him a pint, because we were in the local pub, and fair exchange is no robbery.

So, we towed it up to my house with my mate's Suzuki Jeep, and I set about removing the head. Sure enough, belt snapped, wrapped round the cam pulley, all eight valves bent.

It turns out, my mum's neighbour used to use K10s as her driving school cars, and when one had been written off in an accident her husband had pulled the engine. But, now he wanted his shed cleared to get his boat in, and would I mind giving him a hand? Yes of course I'd give him a hand, and he gave me the engine.

So 25 quid or so of my hard-earned dole money and I bought a Haynes manual for the Micra (which I still have, the manual not the car), a head gasket set, a timing belt set, and six tins of beer, and set about reassembling the engine with the good head off the engine from the shed. It took a few hours of a nice Sunday afternoon and by early evening it was back together and would start and run, come up to temperature, no bubbles in the coolant, no funny noises, smooth as silk.

I put another 85,000 miles on that in the next four years before it eventually got to the point where it was just too rotten to consider welding any more.

I kind of wish I'd just chucked it into a nice dry shed and left it until I could properly strip the shell and weld it up. It would be tax and MOT exempt by now, a historic vehicle! Can you imagine, a historic D-reg Micra?

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by netsharc »

shafyy wrote: post #494
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #490

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I live in SF and I absolutely love so much about it, but here and especially in Oakland where I also lived for years, I'd welcome bringing back caning if it meant we could live as safely and securely as in Singapore

Caning is absolutely against basic human rights, so no. It won't make Oakland and SF safer, it will only make society more divided and worse off. Go ask and minorities like Indian slave workers how safe and secure they feel in Singapore...

> Caning is absolutely against basic human rights

I wish people would also care about human rights like sanitation, clean clothes, accomodation. But hey, people wearing shit-and-piss-stained rags shitting on the sidewalk?

Re: Waymo Premier

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Post by tjohns »

cortesoft wrote: post #87
tjohns wrote: post #62

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Oil changes cost like $35/year if you do it yourself. Decent tires last 4-5 years, so that's like $100/year (to be generous). Air filters are so cheap and need replacement so infrequently as to not even be worth counting.

If you are doing the work yourself, you have to count the value of your time, then.

An oil change is quick, like 30 minutes. If I grab a granola bar instead of sitting down for breakfast and then instead use that time to do the oil change, the time expenditure is basically a wash.
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