This being Vegas, they should make it possible to bet that you'll
- get lost
- be late
- collide with a moving car
- collide with stationary object
- run over a pedestrian (bonus for multiple!)
Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
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Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why wouldn't they just take a taxi driven by a human? Or a bus (also driven by a human)?
> take a taxi driven by a human? expensive, sometimes they sexually harass/assault the passengers, sometimes the drivers are also dangerously tired > Or a bus (also driven by a human)? slow (especially because USians oppose optimal stop spacing) and dirty, no door-to-door air conditioning, not separated from poor people
Tiredness is a big one. I was driven by a guy who had worked nonstop for a whole weekend. It was one of the most terrifying drives of my life. I had to tell him to park and sleep outside my house, or else I would report him to Uber.
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#63I have a good sense of what Waymo and Tesla’s capabilities are, but not Zoox. Can anyone here clue me in on how Zoox compares?
They are the second company to launch robotaxi services in the US.
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#64I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around. They seem to have a mix of robotaxis (like the ones pictured) and decked out Toyota Highlanders that look like Waymos but not as well "packaged", though in my personal experience I saw far more of the Highlanders than the custom robotaxis and all of them seemed to have a driver behind the wheel. Vegas is an interesting place to launch IMO (and I believe they only oper…
Vegas is also good for many other reasons: year round good weather, lots of tourists in need of taxi services, too hot to walk, too drunk to drive, etc…
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#65I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around. They seem to have a mix of robotaxis (like the ones pictured) and decked out Toyota Highlanders that look like Waymos but not as well "packaged", though in my personal experience I saw far more of the Highlanders than the custom robotaxis and all of them seemed to have a driver behind the wheel. Vegas is an interesting place to launch IMO (and I believe they only oper…
The Highlanders are testing vehicles: https://zoox.com/journal/autonomous-zoox-testing-vehicle
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
We can called it a "Beneficial Usage Service" or BUS, for short.
This meme about self-driving cabs being glorified busses reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment. It’s technically correct. But it misses the social context so entirely that it, when you realise it’s being seriously said, becomes farce.
The way these are pushed as "solutions to cities and traffic" make making fun of the too easy.
> But it misses the social context
Funny how their entire social context is "never encounter another human as you go from A to B"
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#67Hopefully some genius will figure out a way of joining lots of these together into a 'gigapod'. That might have enough capacity to actually work at city scale.
Perhaps maybe we add common places where it regularly stops and you can get on/off?
An automated van that has roughly regular routes but goes slightly out of its way to pick up/drop off people would be a good middle ground between taxis and buses —- not unlike Jeepnys in the Philippines.
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#68I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around. They seem to have a mix of robotaxis (like the ones pictured) and decked out Toyota Highlanders that look like Waymos but not as well "packaged", though in my personal experience I saw far more of the Highlanders than the custom robotaxis and all of them seemed to have a driver behind the wheel. Vegas is an interesting place to launch IMO (and I believe they only oper…
Vegas is also good for many other reasons: year round good weather, lots of tourists in need of taxi services, too hot to walk, too drunk to drive, etc…
#1 place cabbies have tried to scam me. #2 being Boston. Uber is such a blessing
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#69do these things self-clean? a free private shuttle service along the strip sounds like a bunch of private vomit-pods on wheels.
there are cameras inside, and they can see who made a mess inside the car
Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
This meme about self-driving cabs being glorified busses reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment. It’s technically correct. But it misses the social context so entirely that it, when you realise it’s being seriously said, becomes farce.
The way these are pushed as "solutions to cities and traffic" make making fun of the too easy. > But it misses the social context Funny how their entire social context is "never encounter another human as you go from A to B"
> way these are pushed as "solutions to cities and traffic" make making fun of the too easy
It's funny. It's also dumb. An observation can be both at the same time--it's a cornerstone of humor. What it isn't is fundamentally true or revealing.
> their entire social context is "never encounter another human as you go from A to B"
Nope. It's recognising that humans have diverse and varying needs for interaction and privacy.
I like to dine out, even alone. That doesn't make everyone who eats at home alone an idiot. (That doesn't mean I can't make jokes about it. But they shouldn't be mistaken for truth.)